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of that school, it is very difficult to comment on it. On the basis of available materials, the history of this style of painting runs from the twelfth century to about the end of the sixteenth or the early part of the seventeenth century. Thereafter the school continued for some t more, may be in the 18th century, but during this period it came heavily under the influence of the Rajput-Mughal style of painting. The palmleaf period of Western Indian painting ran from its inception in the twelfth century to about the end of the fourteenth century when paper came into use.
Most of these miniature paintings depict the lives of the Jinas, gods, godesses and saints as contained in such texts as the Kalpa Sutra and the Kālakācāryakathā. But there are other texts like the Uttarādhyayana Sutra, Vipāka Sūtra, Samgrahani Sutra which contain miniature paintings by way of illustration. In our limited space we have restricted our reproductions only to the Kalpa Sūtra and Kālakācāryakathā. But to show the continuity of this art we have included in our reproduction two paintings, one from Sālibhadra Mahāmuni Caupāi with Rajput-Mughal complex, and another, a portion from an illus trated roll of Vijñaptipatra, through which this art has come down to our times.
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