Sittanavasal Cave (Arivar Koil) Paintings
- Location – Tamil Nadu
- Paintings based on Jainism.
- The central element of the paintings in Sittanavasal is a pond with lotuses.
- These murals have close resemblance to Bagh and Ajanta paintings.
- The medium used for painting was vegetable and mineral dyes, and was done by putting colours on the surface of thin wet lime plaster.
- The common colours included yellow, green, orange, blue, black and white.
Badami Cave Paintings
- Dates back to the early Chalukyan dynasty
- One of earliest surviving Hindu paintings
- Depict Chalukyan kings, Jain saints, Shiva and Parvati among others.
- Cave 3 contains murals of four armed Brahma on his swan.
- Similar to Ajanta and Bagh paintings.