Jain Miniature Paintings from Western India c6.426

c6.426

The outstanding feature of this roll is the size of the drawings which is unique, as far as the mediæval Western Indian painting of the 14th and 15th centuries is concerned. It is difficult to say whether the paintings reproduce exactly the Jain temples as they existed in various centres of Jain pilgrimage, though it must be admitted that the painter shows great familiarity, at least, with the temples of Śatruñjaya. Anyway, the pictures give us a vertical elevation of Jain temples, it were. Another peculiar feature of these temples is that they seem to have been decorated with inlaid stone work.