Treasures of Jaina Bhandaras

SR No.: 001583
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Umakant P Shah, Dalsukh Malvania, Nagin J Shah
Publisher: L D Indology Ahmedabad
Publication Year: 1978
Total Pages: 274
Language: English
Classification: Book_English, Literature, & Art
File Size: 19 MB

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Illustrated Manuscripts
The other four texts copied in this bundle are the (5) INĀTĀDHARMAKATHANGA-SŪTRA-VRTTI, i. e. commentary of the text (1) above (folios 194 to 297 ), (6) UPĀSAKADAŚĀNGASŪTRA-VRTTI, commentary on (2) above (folios 298 to 319 ), (7) ANTAKRDDAŠANGASŪTRA-VRTTI commentary on (3) above (folios 319 to 326), and (8) ANUTTARAUPAPĀTIKADAŚĀNGASŪTRA-VRTTI, commentary on (4) above (folios 326 to 331 ).
Text No. (5) above has on folio 194 a figure af Tirthařkara sitting in padmāsana in the centre, with a standing attendant fly-whisk bearer yakşa figure on each side. The figures set against the natural back-ground colour of the palm-leaf itself appear beautiful. Lower garments of attendant figures are in red; the caitya-tree over Jina's head and the scarfs of attendants are in green. (For reproduction see ‘JAINA CITRAKALPADRUMA', Vol. I, edited by Sarabhai Nawab, Ahmedabad, fig. 8.]
In the right margin of folio 330 is a figure of a swan in a roundel, while in the left margin is an elephant surrounded by lotuses. In the centre of folio 330 is now a well-known miniature of standing Sarasvati with two sitting devotees on her sides, the one on the right is labelled Śre. Deśala, while the figure on the left is called Subhankara in the miniature itself. Ref., 'JAINA CITRAKALPADRUMA', Vol. I, (Sarabhai Nawab), fig. 9; STUDIES IN JAINA ART' (U.P. Shah), fig. 66. U. P. Shah suggested that the typical elongated forms of Sarasvati in this miniature, and of the attendant yakşas on folio no. 194, as also the somewhat oblong face of Sarasvati, show Deccan-Karņātaka influence. This is very likely since the mother of Siddharāja (in whose reign the MS. was copied and painted), Minaldevī by dame, hailed from the region around Goa (U. P. Shah:
MORE DOCUMENTS OF JAINA PAINTINGS ', p. 4, L. D.
Series no. 51, Ahmedabad, 1976). 389. UTTARĀDHYAYANASŪTRA, śāntinātha Jaina Bhaņdāra,
Cambay, No. 78, folios 190, size 13"x2.2"; copied in c second