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saint. Samal Bhatt was a fine poet and writer who Aurangzeb, patronised painting and made effort
is credited with thirty-six works. His works for its further development.
included story books by the name of the Madan Quiz Time
Mohan and the Samal-Ratnamal, which are
popular even today. Many poems were written in Match writers with their works :
the praise of gods and goddesses. Akbarnama u u Jayananda

Just Think! Prem Vatika u u Akha
Rasa-Gangadhar u u Sridhar Swami
Why did the Bhakti saints use common language Hari-Vijaya u u Jagannath Pandit
instead of Sanskrit?
Kaivalya Gita u u Abul Fazal
Bengali
Chaitanya Mangal u u Raskhan
After Chaitanya made Bengali popular as a literary
language, many other saints contributed to make it Mughal Style of Painting
richer. Some of the famous writers included Akbar started to patronise painting. He opened
Krishnadas Kaviraja, Brindaban Das, Jayananda,
Trilochandas and Narhari Chakravarti, who wrote karkhanas where many painters worked. It is
believed that there were over 100 painters in
many books including the biographies of Akbar’s karkhanas. At the same time, miniature
Chaitanya Mahaprabhu. Some of the important
biographies of Chaitanya Mahaprabhu included painting also developed. The books were
illustrated with elaborate miniature painting work,
the Chaitanyacharitamitra by Krishandas Kaviraja,
the Chaitanya Bhagvata by Brindavan Das, the such as the Hamzanama, the
Chaitanya Mangal by Baburnama, the Akbarnama
and the Tutinama. Some of
Jayananda, another book of
the same name of Chaitanya the famous painters of the
Mughal period were
Mangal by Trilochandas and
Bichitra, Basawan, Daulat,
Bhaktiratnakar by Narhari
Chakravarti. Some scholars Govardhan, Shankar, Bishan
Das, Bahzad etc. You can
translated the Ramayana, see that the Mughals
the Mahabharata and the
Bhagwat Gita into Bengali. Chaitanya Mahaprabhu encouraged both Hindu and A miniature painting
Muslim painters.
Some women also contributed to Bengali during the Mughal period
literature, such as Anandamayi (of East Bengal).
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In western India, miniature painting developed in
Chaitanya Mahaprabhu was a famous Bhakti saint
of Bengal. Find out more about him. the 10th century. These miniatures, depicting
Buddhist diverties and scenes from the life of
Buddha was painted on the leaves (about 2.25 by 3
PAINTING
inches) of the palm-leaf manuscripts as well as or
Painting had well developed even before the their wooden covers. Most common Buddhist
Delhi Sultanate period started. It had spread all illustrated manuscripts includes the texts
over India and many parts of Asia with the spread Astasahasrika Prajnaparamita, Pancharaksha
of Hinduism and Buddhism. However, the rulers Karandevyuha and KalachakraTantra.
of the Delhi Sultanate did not patronise painting
The Mughal paintings mainly depicted royal court,
as it is not as per the edicts of the Quran. battles, hunting scenes, mythology, everyday life,
However, the Mughal rulers, to the exception of
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