While the above-mentioned traditions could have significantly influenced the Cheriyal scroll paintings and artists, the Cheriyal paintings were and continue to be a distinctly local invention, peculiar to the Telangana region, drawing mainly on local traditions.
To quote from A. L. Dallaiccola's South Indian Paintings- A catalogue of the British Museum collection - Although in the past the majority of Indian people might have been illiterate, they were not uneducated.