Jain Miniature Paintings from Western India c6.271

c6.271

IT is now practically a settled fact that paper as a writing and painting material was introduced on considerable scale in Western India by the end of the thirteenth and the beginning of the 14th century, though the find of the colophon of a paper manuscript of the *Dhvanyāloka*, a work on poetics, which was written for Jinachandra Sūri (1156—1166 A.D.), shows that paper was known in India even in the twelfth century.¹