Which among the followings manuscripts belongs to the Pala School of Painting?

(A) Prajnaparamita
(B) Astasahasrika
(C) Ragamala
(D) Kalakacharyakatha

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

(A), (B) only

The correct answer is Option (4) → (A), (B) only

Both Prajnaparamita and Astasahasrika are Buddhist manuscripts that belong to the Pala School of Painting, which flourished in the eastern regions of India (particularly Bihar and Bengal) .

On the other hand:

• Ragamala is associated with Rajput and Mughal schools.

• Kalakacharyakatha is associated with the Jain manuscript tradition

Pala School of Painting: Like the Jain texts and paintings, the illustrated manuscripts of the Palas of eastern India also form the earliest examples of paintings from the eleventh and twelfth centuries. Pala period (750 CE to the mid–twelfth century) saw the last great phase of Buddhist art in India. Monasteries, such as Nalanda and Vikramsila were great centres of Buddhist learning, and art and numerous manuscripts were illustrated here with Buddhist themes and images of Vajrayana Buddhist deities on palm leaves. These centres also had workshops for casting of bronze images. Students and pilgrims from all over South East Asia came to these monasteries for education and religious instruction, and took back specimens of Pala Buddhist art in the form of bronze and illustrated manuscripts.  This practice enabled the dispersal of Pala art to places, such as Nepal, Tibet, Burma, Sri Lanka and Java. Unlike the terse lines of Jain painting, a flowing and sinuous line in subdued colour tones characterises Pala paintings. Like at Ajanta, the sculptural styles of Pala at monasteries and the painterly images have a similar language. A fine example of a Pala Buddhist palm leaf manuscript is Astasahasrika Prajnaparamita (Bodleian Library, Oxford) or the ‘Perfection of Wisdom’ written in eight thousand lines."