Jain Miniature Paintings from Western India c6.29

c6.29

The tradition of Jain painting is as old as Buddhist painting. There are very extensive rock hewn caves not earlier than the second century B.C., and mainly of the first century B.C., at Udayagiri and Khaṇḍagiri at Orissa.¹⁴ In one of the caves there are remains of paintings.