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[97] may belong to Gujarat or may have been painted in Gujarat up to ca. 1650 A.D.
In respect of building activity of Gujarat in the early 17th century, especially at the mosque of Sarkhej ka Roza in Ahmedabad; there are extant remains of wall paintings above the arches and on the interior of tombs of some of the subsidiary mosques in the contemporary Mughal style, which stylistically resemble the two Suri Mantra Patas of the early 17th century, published by Sarabhai Nawab 8. These Patas have been lost but they impart a glimpse of the style that prevailed in Ahmedabad in the early 17th century.
The Pata from Prachya Vidya Pratisthana, Paladi, Ahmedabad which represents Vividha Tirhtas again is an example of the type of painting that was done at Ahmedabad in the early 17th century. It is a curious mixture of Mughal and Jain elements with male and female figures clad in contemporary Mughal costume. The next two large vertical Patas from Samvegi Jain Upasraya and Anandji Kalyanji Pedhi respectively, hereafter culled no. 1 and no. 2 are quite similar in many respects and are perhaps painted by the same hand at the same time. They are divided into four parts horizontally. The only difference being that the first has the colophon on the top whereas the second has it at the bottom.
The general arrangements of Patas shows the ground completely filled with smaller rectangles of different colours showing seated Tirthankaras and other deities in rows numberin 904. The first register from the top has a Shikhara shaped arrangement with ascending steps having rectangles filled with cosmological calculations, smaller and larger temples and other figures etc. The second register has two Tirthas, Satrunjaya above and Girnar Garh below, divided by a second line of boundary wall. The drawing and painting in this square is similar to what one observes in the Mewar Ramayana of 1649 by Manohar. This does not appear to be very far in date from the Patas presently under discussion. In this semistylized landscape the artist has tried to give a number of symbolic
18. Sarabhai Nawab. Suri Mantra Vidhi, Ahmedabad 1971.
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