Mahavira, the 'founder' of the Jain sect, carried by gods out of the city in a palanquin, intending to renounce the world, 15th century, miniature on paper (Baroda Museum)
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Goetz, Hermann
Photographer: Arthur Llewellyn Basham
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When in the 15th century, a powerful Rajput federation withstood all Muslim onslaughts on Rajasthan, when in Orissa Kapilendra, Purushottama and Prataparudra took the offensive, when, even in the Himalayas the small mediaeval states recovered, Hindu & Jain architecture, sculpture and painting experienced a renaissance which, under the tolerant rule of the first Mughal emperors, lasted until the first quarter of the 17th century ... But it was no more than a scholarly, antiquarian fashion, favoured for a time by the political revival ... Painting was for a long time reduced to one Jain standard text, the Kalpasutra, whose decorative compositions are, however, nearer to pure ornament than to representation of natural objects. (Hermann Goetz, India: Five Thousand Years of Indian Art, London, Methuen, 1959, pp. 158, 161)
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1959
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