Jain Miniature Paintings from Western India c7.6

c7.6

² *Bharatiya Vidyā* p. 34. Continuation of the Note from page 59. developed technique of the drawing which is of the 15th century and the excellent state of preservation of the cover, which would certainly have been greatly rubbed had it been nearly eight hundred years old. I shall have the occasion to discuss the differences in execution of the covers depicting Jinadatta and Kumuda-chandra and Devasūri as they are more or less contemporary. But such differences may only be due to the vagaries of the transitional period. As for its good state of preservation it may be purely accidental. It is remarkable that jackets worn by men in this cover do not appear in paintings after the 13th century and if fashions in costume be the indication of age then the 12th century date proposed for this cover is not wrong.