Jain Miniature Paintings from Western India c9.s10.2

c9.s10.2

*Style*.—According to the *Mānasollāsa*⁶², a brush handle, measuring the small finger in length with the tip measuring two angulas, was made of bamboo. To the tip of this handle, a copper nail (*śaṅku*), measuring two barley grains, one *yava* of its length being visible and the rest struck inside the handle, was fixed. This style was known as *tindu* and, though the uses of this contraption are not enumerated, it was probably used for scratching the design on palm-leaf before it was smeared with the lampblack as is seen in manuscripts from South India.