Jain Miniature Paintings from Western India c6.320

c6.320

To the same period belongs an illustrated manuscript of the *Kalpasūtra* in the collection of Muni Kāntivijayajī, now in the Ātmānand Jñāna Mandir, Narsinghjīnī Pol, Baroda, its catalogue number being 2189. Its colophon says ³⁰ that the manuscript was written at Maṇḍapadurga (modern Māṇḍogaṛh) in Mālwā. The miniatures reproduced from this manuscript are : the fourteen dreams of Triśalā (Fig. 155)³¹, the marriage procession of Neminātha (Fig. 156),³² the bathroom of Siddhārtha (Fig. 157),³³ keeping awake on the sixth day of the birth of Mahāvīra (Fig. 158),³⁴ driving stakes into the ears of Mahāvīra (Fig. 159),³⁵ the giving away of half the garment and the misdemeanour of the cowherd (Fig. 160),³⁶ Kamaṭha practising penance (Fig. 161),³⁷ the prowess of Prince Ariṣṭanemi (Fig. 162),³⁸ water-sport (Fig. 163),³⁹ Kośā dance (Fig. 164),⁴⁰ the gift of child Vajra (Fig. 165),⁴¹ the twelve-years famine (Fig. 166),⁴² writing of the manuscript (Fig. 167),⁴³ and one of the rules to be observed by the monks (Fig. 168)⁴⁴.