Jain Miniature Paintings from Western India c6.234

c6.234

Dr. Norman Brown²⁷ has tried to indicate the sequences in the stylistic development of the miniatures of the palm-leaf period. He groups the earliest known examples of the school in the manuscript of the *Jñātāsūtra* and other three *Aṅgas*, dated 1127 A.D., under the stylistic classification ‘A’, and shows that the sequence of this style runs from these early examples through the miniatures in Hemachandra’s *Nemicharita* and in the miniatures of the *Sāvagapaḍikamaṇa-sutta* executed in 1260 A.D. In the manuscript of the *Kalpasūtra* and *Kālakāchārya-kathā* in Pāṭan Bhaṇḍār, dated 1279 A.D., he sees a sub-variety of style ‘A’, which he calls ‘A. 1’. In another illustrated manuscript of the *Kalpasūtra*, dated 1278 A.D., in the Sanghvinā Pāḍānā Bhaṇḍār, Pāṭan, he sees the second sub-variety of Style ‘A. 1’, and designates it ‘A. 2’.