Treasures of Jaina Bhandaras

Author(s): Umakant P Shah, Dalsukh Malvania, Nagin J Shah
Publisher: L D Indology Ahmedabad

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Introduction
from Pālitānā which I could not see in the original and the transparencies when processed turned out to be of an inferior quality.
My object in writing these notes is to emphasise the importance of this new material in the context of Western Indian Miniatures already published. I hope that I have been able to point out the need for a new history of Jaina Miniature Paintings from Western India. Unfortunately Dr. Moti Chandra who would have done justice to this material and would have revised his old work is no more with us.
Another object in writing these notes was to point out to the students of art that now we have with us enough new material to show the existence of various centres of arts, with their own peculiarities and styles, in different parts of Gujarat State, during the four centuries from sixteenth to twentieth centuries A. D.
I hope detailed studies in these directions will be undertaken in near future by scholars working in the field of Indian art.
Baroda
Umakant P. Shah
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