A History of Fine Art in India and Ceylon, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day c13.s9.1

c13.s9.1

The Jain religion, now mostly confined to Rājputāna and the western provinces, was formerly, as already observed (*ante*, p. 11), far more widely extended than it is at the present day. In all ages Jains, like the adherents of the rival religions, freely enlisted the services of the sculptor. Numerous examples of Jain sculpture dating from mediaeval times are to be found in regions where the Jain religion is now non-existent. Almost all Jain images are so much alike that they may be disposed of summarily without the chronological and provincial classification indispensable for the discussion of Buddhist and Brahmanical sculpture.