Science and Art of Calligraphy and Painting

Author(s): S Andhare
Publisher: Indian National Science Academy

Page 95

59 Preparation of colours for Paintings The present state of our knowledge on preparation of colours for miniature painting in general and Western Indian or Jain manuscript painting in particular, is based primarily on the researches, interpretations and translations of passages from the medieval texts like the Vishnudharmottara Puranal the Manasollasa?, of kavi Someshvara and the Silparatna etc. on the one hand, and some practical interviews and field work conducted by scholars with the traditional painters to extract valuable data on making of colours and to understand the technique of miniature painting from them on the other. There are two monumental researcheres done in this field. One, by Dr. Moti Chandra on the technique of mughal painting and on *Jain miniature painting and the other, by Muni Punyavijay ji on the art of writing and painting of Jaina manuscripts' which largely deal with Western Indian painting in Gujarat and Rajasthan.
Stella Kramrisch: The Vishnudharmottara. (Pt. III) Calcutta. 1924. Shirgondekar : Manasollasa. Pt.Il Gaekwads Oriental series. LXXXIV. Baroda. 1939 Srikumara : Silparatna, ed. by. M. T. Ganapati Shastri Trivendrum. 1923. summarised by K. P. Jaiswal. JORAS. Vol. IX. pt.1 Patna. 1923 Shridhar Andharo : Mewar Painters, their status and genealogies, Facets of Indian Art, Victoria & Albert Museum, London 1986. PP. 176-184. Moti Chandra : Jain Miniature Painting from Western India. Sarabhai Nawab. Ahmedabad. 1949 Muni Punyavijayji: Bharatiya Jain Sramana Sanskriti ane Lekhana Kala. (Gujarati), Sarabhai Nawab. 1950. also see Jaina-ChitraKalpadruma. S. M. Nawab. Ahmedabad-1936 S. K. Andhare : Technique of Rajasthani Painting. Technology in India. (Ancient and Medieval Periods)" Anantacharya Indological Research Institute. Series. No. XV Bombay 1984.