Historical Facts About Jainism

Author(s): Lala Lajpatrai
Publisher: Jain Associations of India Mumbai

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Libraries of Western India are made more accesible, they will be found to contain illustrated manuscripts still older than the beginning of the fifteenth Century.”
"The Jains are to be met with in nearly every large Indian town, chiefly amongst the merchants. They have been politically, and are still economically powerful. To them the architectural splendour of many of the cities of Western India is largely due ; as likewise, that of great temple cities of Satrunjava, Girnar, and the beautiful temples at the Mount Abu. They now occupy an important position chiefly in Gujarat, Rajputana and the Punjab and also in Kanara. The Architecture resembles that of Gujarat, where most of the miniatures nust have been painted. Indian Mughal Art did not yet exist when the 15th Century Jain miniatures were being painted.”
JAIN ARCHITECTURE AND ITS INFLUENCE.
Referring to the historically famous Saiva temple of Somnatha at Parabhas Patan James Furguson in his history of Indian and Eastern Architecture writes "though a Brahmanical temple, it illustrates the style employed by the Jains in Gujarat in the twelfth Century”.
JAIN TEMPLE OF RANAKPUR. Referring to the famous temple of Ranpur (Ranakpur) built in 1440 A.D. the same author