Jain Miniature Paintings from Western India c6.286

c6.286

Then comes an illustrated manuscript of the *Kalpasūtra* with beautiful border decoration. It is now in the Narasimhajīni polnā Jñāna Bhaṇḍār, Baroda, and once formed a part of the collection of the late Hamsavijayajī. The text is written in golden ink. There are eighty-six pages, eight miniatures and seventy-four borders. The colophon of the manuscript (Figs. 91-92)⁸ tells us that the manuscript was written in Vikrama Samvat 1522 (A.D. 1465), at Yavanpur (modern Jaunpur, U.P.), in the reign of Huseyn Shāh, by the order of Harshinī Srāvikā. The floral patterns in the borders (Figs. 93-98) are very beautifully executed, and show the mastery of the artist in purely Hindu patterns⁹ and those imported by the Muslim power. In the miniatures scenes from the lives of the Jinas and saints, such as the consecration ceremony of Ṛṣhabhadēva (Fig. 99),¹⁰ the fourteen dreams of Devānandā (Fig. 100),¹¹ duel between Bharata and his brother Bāhubali (Fig. 101),¹² Kosā dance and an episode of Ārya Samiti (Fig. 102),¹³ Indra holding umbrella over Āryadharma (Fig. 103),¹⁴ the four Samghas worshipping at the Nirvāṇa of Mahāvīra (Fig. 104),¹⁵ and the grief of Triśalā at the immobility of the foetus (Fig 105),¹⁶ are represented.