Vastu-shastra (Vol. I: Hindu Science of Architecture; Vol. II: Hindu Canons of Iconography and Painting) v2.c78.s1.78

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The earliest example of the Jain style is to be found in the palm leaf MS. of the Niśītha Curṇi in the Jain Bhaṇdār at Pātan, written in the A. D. 1100 in the reign of Siddharāja Jaysimha. The first period of palm-leaf MSS. lasted from A. D. 1100 to 1400, and from this period have come to us the illustrated MSS. of the Aṅgasūtra, Triṣaṣṭi śalākā-puruṣa-carita, Srī-Neminātha-carita, Śrāvaka-pratikramaṇa-curṇi, etc. In the school period lasting from 1400 to 1500 the illustrated MSS. of Kalpasūtra and Kālakāchārya-kathā and Siddha-Haima were painted.