Jina venerated by a monk, men and women, a naga, and animals from a Digambara Jain manuscript / Artist Unknown, India, Sirohi School
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- Accession Number
- 1975/2.170
- Title
- Jina venerated by a monk, men and women, a naga, and animals from a Digambara Jain manuscript
- Artist Nationality
- Indian
- Medium and Support
- ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper
- Object Creation Date
- circa 18th century
- Object Creation Place
- Asia (continent)
- India (nation)
- Rajasthan (state)
- Sirohi (inhabited place)
- Creation Place 1
- Asia (continent)
- Creation Place 2
- India (nation)
- Creation Place 3
- Rajasthan (state)
- Creation Place 4
- Sirohi (inhabited place)
- Style/Group/Movement
- Sirohi, Jain mss.
- Dimensions
- 28.8 cm x 17.8 cm (11 5/16 in. x 7 in.)
- Century
- 18th century
- Primary Object Classification
- Painting
- Primary Object Type
- album leaf
- Secondary Object Classification
- Books and Folios
- Secondary Object Type
- manuscript
- Physical Description
- A Jina is encircled by a giant halo of ref, green, blue, gold, and white. Within the halo are different creatures, including a tiger, bird, naga, and devotees. The Jina sits nude on a throne with his legs crossed and hands together. Above him are clouds in the sky, and below a monk and devotees.
- Subject Matter
- This is an illustration in a Digambara Jain manuscript of verse 34 of the Bhaktamara Stotra.
- This verse praises the glorious halo that surrounds the Jina on his Enlightenment. The presence of the halo is one of the eight pr?tih?rya or so-called miraculous manifestations that accompany the Jina after his Enlightenment. Here the verse describes how the Jina’s halo of light puts to shame all the heavenly bodies. Greater than a multitude of suns, it is also gentler than the moon at night. The poet means to say that the light of the Jina’s halo is comforting not burning, something that is said in Sanskrit poetry of the light of the moon. At the same time, the light of the Jina is as brilliant as the light of countless suns. And by this seeming paradox the poet tells us that the light of the Jina’s halo is not of this world. The halo with its concentric circles also suggests the miraculous preaching assembly, which in turn alerts us to the marvelous appearance of the halo. Like the preaching assembly it is filled with beings of different realms of rebirth: humans, animals, and gods. The small crowned figure at the bottom worshipping the Jina is probably the god Indra.
- Secondary Keywords
- animals and creatures
- containers
- containers by form
- mammals
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- people
- people (agents)
- people and culture
- people by occupation
- people by state or condition
- people in religion
- people in religion and related occupations
- people in the humanities
- religious (people)
- vessels
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- University of Michigan Museum of Art
- Image Size
- 829 x 1319
- File Size
- 144 KB
- Record
- 1975/2.170
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"Jina venerated by a monk, men and women, a naga, and animals from a Digambara Jain manuscript; Artist Unknown, India, Sirohi School." In the digital collection University of Michigan Museum of Art. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/musart/x-1975-sl-2.170/1975_2.170.jpg. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed April 19, 2024.
