📝 Sittanavasal Cave (Arivar Koil) Paintings
🔶 Dated from 1st century BC to 10th century AD, and located in Tamil Nadu, these famous rock-cut cave temples are known for the paintings based on Jainism.
🔶 These murals have close resemblance to Bagh and Ajanta paintings.The paintings are not only on the walls but also on the ceiling and pillars.
🔶 The paintings are with the theme of Jain Samavasarana (Preaching hall).Some scholars believe that these caves belong to the Pallava period, when King Mahendravarman I excavated the temple, while others attribute them to when Pandya ruler renovated the shrine in the 7th century.
🔶 The medium used for painting was vegetable and mineral dyes, and was done by putting colours on surface of thin wet lime plaster.
🔶 The common colours included yellow, green, orange, blue, black and white.
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