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Discuss the Caurapancashika and Jain styles of paintings. Can the Caurapancashika style truly be called the precursor of pothi format?
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- Cultural Traditions in India, 750-1200
Between the twelfth and sixteenth centuries, Indian manuscript illustration produced two closely related but distinct idioms before the Mughal atelier reshaped painting altogether: the conservative, scripture-bound Western Indian or Jaina style, and the more secular, dynamic Caurapanchashika idiom. Both grew out of the same manuscript culture and share stylistic DNA, yet they diverge sharply in…
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- The Western Indian (Jaina) School
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