Jain Miniature Paintings from Western India c6.50

c6.50

In the middle layer²⁶, Viṣṇu riding on Garuḍa (Fig. 4) and Śiva riding on bull (Fig. 5) are represented. A remarkable change in figure drawing may be marked in the angularity of drawing seen in the pointed nose of Garuḍa, the Gandharvas and Lakshmī. The shrinking of farther cheek and the consequent protrusion of the eye into space, though to a slight extent, may be marked. It could be said without any reservation that these paintings are the harbingers of new conventions in Indian art, which became stereotyped in Western Indian miniatures.