Jain Miniature Paintings from Western India c6.307

c6.307

Contemporary in date (Circa 1475), are also the border decorations in a few leaves from a profusely illustrated manuscript of the *Kalpasūtra* in the collection of Sarabhai Nawab (Figs. 137–138). There are beautiful arabesques, cones and cartouches on indigo, ultramarine and red grounds (Fig. 137), copied from the decorative patterns in the contemporary coloured tiles and other carved decorative motifs from mosques and palaces. Then there are lovely dancing poses on green flowered ground (Fig. 138), scenes of merrymaking as swinging, dancing and music, panels depicting Persian soldiers, duel between two Persians, disporting cranes against a green flowered back-ground, and two panels showing dancing women on yellow and flowered ground.