Digambara Jain manuscript page: Jina and battle scene / Artist Unknown, India, Sirohi School
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Record Details
- Accession Number
- 1975/2.168
- Title
- Digambara Jain manuscript page: Jina and battle scene
- Artist Nationality
- Indian
- Medium and Support
- ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper
- Object Creation Date
- 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
- 18.42 cm x 28.89 cm (7 1/4 in. x 11 3/8 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
- Worshippers gather and seem to celebrate around a sky-clad (nude) Jina and monk at top center. Flanking these figures are two searted drummers. In the lower register men on horseback and elephant look up to them as the ride by and raise their weapons in battle. A trumpeter sounds his instrument in the bottom left.
- Subject Matter
- In the Jain religion, book production reflects the integral relationship among the laity, monastic community, and the Jina, or enlightened Jain teacher. The dedication of sacred books for shrines is required of devotees, and while commissioning a book fulfills the lay obligation of charity, beholding a book helps the individual achieve the proper mental state for spiritual guidance. It was customary for a lay donor to commission a copy of a text for presentation to his spiritual teacher and ultimately to the temple library.
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- membranophones
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- people by activity
- people by state or condition
- religions
- religions and religious concepts
- sound devices
- sound devices by acoustical characteristics
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- Collection
- University of Michigan Museum of Art
- Image Size
- 1333 x 863
- File Size
- 142 KB
- Record
- 1975/2.168
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"Digambara Jain manuscript page: Jina and battle scene; 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-2.168/1975_2.168.jpg. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed April 16, 2024.
