Jain Miniature Paintings from Western India c6.81

c6.81

There are also wall-paintings in the stone-built temple of Kailāsanāth at Conjeevaram⁴⁵ datable to the last decade of the 7th century; in the Bṛhadīśvara temple at Tanjore⁴⁶ datable to about 11th century, and in the Vijayālaya Nārttamalai Cholīśvara temple datable to the 11th century.⁴⁷ The Nārttamalai paintings, which belong to the later Chola age, share with the wall-paintings of Ellura and Western Indian miniatures the angularity of drawing and certain physical peculiarities as pointed nose, etc.