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AN EPITOME OF JAINISM. paintings in the Nad? Foirily collection in manuscripts of Kalpa Sutra by Bhadrabahu {about 356 B. C.) where deals with the lives of the Jains. They 2!e on the same suoject from the life of Parswanatlı, the 23rd Tirthankar and give vuelleut points for comparison. To one of the pictures will be fuurid tie very sharp-boku nose and large eyes with no less asthce value of early Indian paintings. In the second one we find much developed ides under the influence of the Mahromedan periodh Che interesting changes in drapery, postiine, colouring and everything else, is very striking.
Another plate (through the courtesy of J. S. Conference, Bombay.. contains portraits of the Jain Acharya Hem Chaudra and King Kunarpil íro) y a patria manuscript written in the year 1"). À D. and prescrved in the Bhandarat Patan. These pictures show the peculiar style and serve as specimens of early Jain paintings. The Mahomedan period catirely changed the idea. It is only in the later period that we find paintings of buildiys, scenery and portraits throughout the country,
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