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Jaina Grantha Bhandārs in Rajasthao.
Such a big illustrated and painted manuscript is not available any where. There are several paintings of the war and scences of battle. The soldiers having swords in their hands are riding horses, elephants, chariots or marching on foot. They are wearing turbans on their heads and dupattas in their bodies.
Thus the significance of this manuscript for the history of the Indian painting is great, in as much as it indicates the important changes that were taking place in the indigenous traditions of Western Indian painting during the 15th and 16th centuries.
(3)
The Adipurāna written by Acārya Jinasena in Sanskrit is also illustrated and exists in the śāstra Bhandar of Terā panthi Jaina temple, Jaipur. The manuscript was written in the year 1606 A D. 1.e. 66 years after the painting of the manuscript mentioned in item 2. This manuscript contains more than 200 illustrations which are also fully based on the text. The style and drawings are to a great extent similar to the Adipurāna of Puşpadant but the beauty and ref nement which are seen in that manuscript do not exist in these pictures. Some of the illustrations are only negative and in some paintings only a part of space has been left vacant. They are incomplete also. It appears that in the midst of the work either the painter died or the person who was interested in such work expired.
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Illustrated manuscripts of Yasodhara Carita are found frequently in the Jaina Šāstra Bhandärs of Jaipur, Mozmabad and Nāgaur. Except Mozmabad Bhandar all other illustrated manuscripts are on the work of Sakal Kirti written in Sanskrit and iliustrated manuscripts of Mozmåbād are of Apabhrarśa works written by Puşpadant & Raidhu.
Yasodhara Carita' relating to the Śăstra Bhandār of the Jaina temple Pandit Lunakaranji of Jaipur is a manuscript of the year 1731 A.D. It was got illustrated by the founder of this temple namely Pandit Lünkaranji himself. The first painting of the manuscript belongs to him in which he has been shown with his pupil Khinvasiji. The manuscript contains 37 illustrations. Some of them are of the full size of the folios I. e. 11" x 41" while others are on half of the portion of the manuscript. All the paintings are artistically depicted.
1. पंडित श्री गोवर्धनदासजी तत् शिष्य पंडितजी श्री टोडरमलजी यसोपरचरित पुस्तकं
घटापितं ।
