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Like all other cave paintings from prehistoric period, Some of them found in Bhimbetaka in Madhya Pradesh, India, depict the hunting. It could be a planning of such hunt, to define the strategy to cover the herd of animal and hunt them as a group. It could as well be the sacrificial offering to satisfy the superpower who helped them in past or in anticipation of the help in future. It could be just to narrate the story at later time after the successful hunt. At later stages the art was developed but since they were perishable media, did not survive over a period of time. In mythology and Epics some descriptions of the prudence in paintings. The hero or

heroine of the story when falls in love with the spouse to be, he or she is shown to draw or paint the portrait of the beloved. The walls of the houses were painted with the scenes of the great deeds of the ancestors of the king. The landscapes and the religious stories were common subjects. This art was further developed and preserved in the cave paintings such as Ajantha. The art was developed as Hindu, Buddhist and Jain art depicting paintings on the stories from their respective religions.

Painting in the Gupta period, like architecture and sculpture is merely the culmination of a very ancient tradition. References to Indian painting occur in literature of all periods as early as the Maurya, The principle source for the aesthetics of Indian painting is the Vishnyudharmotaram. It classifies the types of painting appropriate to temples, palaces and private dwelling and differentiates between true, lyrical and secular painting. It was stressed that following classical proportions and expression of emotion through appropriate movement was important. Painting in the Gupta period came to be a social accomplishment to be practiced by amateurs as well as professional craftsmen. Remains of Gupta and post Gupta or early Chalukya wall paintings exist at Ajantha, at Bagh in the Gupta caves at Badami and Jain sactuary at Sittanvasal near Tanjore.