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373. TWO PAINTED WOODEN BOOK-COVERS having illustrations of Siva etc. and a creeper with flowers, LD. No. 28169 (Reg.), size 18-0x9-0 cms.; age e 19th century A. D.; probably belong to a paper-manuscript of some Brähmanical text.
374. PAINTED KÄSTHAPAṬṬIKA-a wooden book-cover for some palm-leaf MS. with an illustration of Jinadattasüri, e 12th century, LD. No. 28036 (Reg.), size 29-5x5-2 cms.; Ref. Western Indian Art,' spacial issue of Journal of Indian Society of Oriental Art,' New Series, Vol. I, article by Muni Punyavijayajt & U. P. Shah on Some Painted Wooden Book-covers from Western India, pp. 34-44 and plates.
375. TWO PAINTED BOOK-COVERS illustrated with Vidyadevis, c 10th-11th century, LD. No. 28033 (Reg.), size 58-5x6-5 cms.
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These book-covers belonged to some Jaina palm-leaf manuscript. The style, though it may look like Pala especially on account of the rendering of the arches behind each goddess. and the frontal pose of the deities, is not Pala. The rendering of the eyes, the somewhat heavy heads etc. is not strictly Pala. Perhaps the book-covers were painted by an artist who belonged to a territory bordered on the areas of the Eastern and Western idioms. Especially noteworthy are the two female-devotees at the end of the second book-cover, i. c. figuring after the last or sixteenth Vidyadevi. Ref. Western Indian Art' (JISOA, New Series, Vol. 1), paper of Punyavijayaji and U. P. Shah, op. cit. p. 34 ff. and plates.
Khandalawala and Saryu Doshi have discussed these covers again in Jaina Art and Architecture, (ed. by A. Ghosh, New Delhi, 1975), Vol. III, ch. III, pp. 397 ff. For a refutation of some of their arguments by U. P. Shah see Journal of the Oriental Institute,' Vol. XXV, Nos. 3-4, (March-June, 1976), p. 318 ff.
Khandalawala and Saryu Doshi are obviously wrong in assigning the two female-devotees to an age A. D. 1122-54. The form of the two figures, especially their faces and eyes and the
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