Jain Miniature Paintings from Western India c6.278

c6.278

Following the above manuscripts comes the *Kalpasūtra* manuscript, dated 1427 A.D., India Office, London. The manuscript contains forty-six miniatures of which thirty-one belong to the *Kalpasūtra* and thirteen to the *Kālakāchārya-kathā*.⁵ The manuscript is not only illustrated but also elaborately decorated.⁶ Its 113 leaves are written with silver ink, and the ground is coloured black or red alternatively. A few pages are written in gold, either on red or plain ground. The borders of the page are decorated generally with animal processions (elephants or *hamsas*), floral branches or formal lotus palmette frames, and occasionally with affronted geese, antelopes, or with human figures. Their borders have either a blue, vermilion, crimson or red ground.