Jina and a monk in a landscape from a Digambara Jain manuscript / Artist Unknown, India, Sirohi School
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Record Details
- Accession Number
- 1975/2.172
- Title
- Jina and a monk in a landscape from a Digambara Jain manuscript
- 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
- 28.73 cm x 18.73 cm (11 5/16 in. x 7 3/8 in.)
- Century
- 18th century
- Primary Object Classification
- Painting
- Secondary Object Classification
- Painting
- Secondary Object Type
- narrative painting
- Physical Description
- This painting illustrates a verse from a Digambara Jain manuscript that likens the capacity of praising the Jina to destroy sins to the way the sun obliterates darkness; it shows a sun with the face of a Jina illuminating the sky. The golden-hued Jina and the monk who venerate a Jina are nude, identifying them as belonging to the Digambara (sky-clad) sect of Jainism.
- Subject Matter
- This is one of 18 folios of this Digambara Jain manuscript owned by the UMMA. Other pages from the same work are in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
- 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, while commissioning a book fulfills the lay obligation of charity, and 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. Over the centuries, monastic libraries received great quantities of texts, which were employed in the instruction of monks and nuns, themselves discouraged from practicing the art of painting: one text expressly warns of the power of painting to arouse sensual feelings.
- Secondary Keywords
- associated concepts
- buildings and the land
- descriptors
- earth sciences concepts
- figures
- figures (representations)
- herbaceous plants
- inorganic material
- landscapes (environments)
- materials
- materials by composition
- natural landscapes
- objects we use
- people
- people (agents)
- people and culture
- people and occupations
- people by activity
- people by occupation
- people by state or condition
- physical sciences concepts
- plants
- scientific concepts
- settlements and landscapes
- vegetation and vegetation components
- vegetation components
- visual works
- visual works by subject type
- woody plants
- Rights
- If you are interested in using an image for a publication, please visit https://umma.umich.edu/about/services/request-image/ for more information and to fill out the online Image Rights and Reproductions Request Form.
Technical Details
- Collection
- University of Michigan Museum of Art
- Image Size
- 863 x 1327
- File Size
- 142 KB
- Record
- 1975/2.172
- Link to this Item
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"Jina and a monk in a landscape 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-2.172/1975_2.172.jpg. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed April 19, 2024.
