Lalbhai Dalpatbhai Museum: Abode Of 75,000 Jain Manuscripts

The key collection in this museum has Jain art and artefacts, including 75000 illustrated manuscripts, scrolls, sculptures, book covers, and miniature paintings. 

Other art and artefacts are from the era of the Mughals, Mayuraya, Cholas, etc, some date back to the 5th century.

One of the beautiful paintings showcasing a scroll painted at Agra by the Mughal painter, Ustad Salivahana, in 1610 AD which illustrates the Mughal emperor Jahangir’s farm prohibiting the killing of animals in his empire during the Jain festival of Paryushan. This scroll is called Vijnaptipatra.

History Of Lalbhai Dalpatbhai Museum Ahmedabad

In 1963 the museum was displayed on the first floor of the building on the campus followed in 1993 where the museum had a collection of miniature paintings of Nanalal Mehta.