Jain Miniature Paintings from Western India c9.s10.15

c9.s10.15

The description of brushes in the *Śilparatna*72 is also of interest. As in the *Mānasollāsa*, the brushes are divided into three categories, thick, medium, and thin, and their length is prescribed as six barley corns. The brush holder seems to have been octagonal or round, and the brush tip, projecting from it, measured half *aṅgula*. For a thick brush, the hair from a calf's ear or the underside of a goat was used, but, for a fine pointed brush the fine hair from the muskrat's tail, fastened to the tip of the handle with thread or wax, was used. Nine brushes, three each of fine medium and thick qualities, are prescribed for every colour, though for yellow the use of only thick brush is ordained.