Jain Miniature Paintings from Western India c6.390

c6.390

subjects in the pala-period were replaced with more elaborate ones representing episodes from the lives of the Buddha and the Indian gods of the pantheon, which were then commonly used as scroll paintings in the pre-pala period. Such was the popularity of painting in the Jain period that books with illustrations were produced, though it is difficult to date them from the similarity of the ornaments and the decorative motifs.