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G. N. SHARMA. Some aspects of Mewari school af painting, the 16th 17th, and 18th centuries (Proc., I. H. C. XVIIth session) Patna, 1956.
P. 274. The Jain miniature paintings of illuminated manuscripts have also exercised a wide and profound influence in the evolution of Mewari Painting. (Indian art through the Age p. 6; Journal of the Oriental Art, Pp. 46-47). The Jain Bhandars or libraries of Jaisalmer and Bikaner support the view that by the beginning of the 15th century artists of Mewar began to come in contact with miniature paintings of Gujarat school of Western India. The Ms, of Kalpasūtra should be taken as one of the connecting links between the early Gujarat Painting and the Mewari Paintings of the following centuries.
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C. R. SUBRAMANIAN. Evolution of Tamil Art and Culture in Pudukkottai (Q. J. M. S. Vol. 49, No. 2, 1958, Bangalore).
Pp. 92–95. Pudukottai State-area 1,179 square miles. Right across the territory flows the Southern Vellar, the traditional boundary between the ancient Pandya and Chola Kingdoms.
Numerous natural caverns and rock shelters at Sittannavāsal, Narthamalai, Tenimalai, Kudumiyamalai and Sevalimalai- were occupied by Jaina monks slightly anterior to the beginning of the Christian Era.
P. 93. Jainismn played a very important role in the evolution of Tamil literature and culture; flourished in this area till about the 11th or 12th century. Very near these caverns were important and populous settlements of the Jainas. Nearly 40 Jain monuments have so far been conserved within this small area, and they include sculptures and ruins of Jain pallis or monasteries. Annavasal, Sittannavasāl, Tenimalai. Narthamalai and Aluruttimalai are some of the places.
P. 94. Traces of early frescoes at Sittannavasāl of early 9th century-connecting link between the Ajanta and the Chola paintings in the Tanjore temple.
The Eladipattam cave at Sittannavasāl contains an inscription in the BrahmiAsokan script of the 3rd-2nd century B. C. Alongside it are lines written in archaic Tamil Characters beginning from the 7th-8th century A. D. upto the 19th century.
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