Tulsi Prajna 1997 10

SR No.: 524593
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Parmeshwar Solanki
Publisher: Jain Vishva Bharati
Publication Year: 1997
Total Pages: 188
Language: Hindi
Classification: Magazine, India_Tulsi Prajna, & India
File Size: 8 MB

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Museum of America. The Hindu deities are obviously painted in the Vijay-yantra dated VE 1504. It seems that the painter was Hindu and not the Jain. He has painted multitude of Hindu figures instead of Jain figures. The Ganesh is obviously worshipped widely not only by the Hindus but also by the Jains. We find its depiction in all the Jain temples, houses of the Jain and others in Rajasthan. The Patta also has such vegetation. We do not find any such depiction in any medieval paintings including the Kalpa-Sutras from Gujarat. The traditional trees are given in figures No. 6, 9,11 and other scenes. The horse is depicted having narrow face. It is the Rajasthani depiction. We find similarly depiction of the complexion of horses in the figures of Jahazpur (Bhilwara) dated VE 1382 and others. Later the mughal artists had adopted it from Rajasthan. The other Hindu figures of Brahma, Shiva and Vishnu are obviously not popular among the Jains of Gujarat'. The inscription No. I of the Vimal Vasati of Abu pays homage to Lord Shiva. Such description is only possible in Rajasthan. We find an invocation of Lod Vishnu (Laxmi-narayan) in the Jain inscription of VE 1583 of Jaisalmer. The Vijay-yantra is obviously a Jain Patta. But except 2 or 3 figures of Jain cosmology, we do not find any figure of Jain in it.
The author has previously thought that this patta was possibly painted at Jaisalmer.10 But recently two similar pattas from Delawara (Mewar) have been known from LOS Angeles Museum of America The figure of Sarasvati is much akin to the goddess Kali painted in Supasa-nāha-Chariyam in 1480 at Delawara (Mewar), Therefore the author think that it was also painted at Delawara (Mewar) in VE 1504. Like other works from Mewar, it was also taken to the Gujarat state, during the Mughal campaigns on Mewar. It has the following inscription of VE 1904.
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संवत् १५०४ वर्षे दीपोत्सव दिने लिखित प्रतिष्ठित श्री खरतरगच्छाधीश्वर श्री जिनभद्रसूरिभिरिदं जैत्र पताकारख्या यंत्र । सपरिवार जैत्रं वांछित सिद्धिं कुरू कुरू स्वाहा 1
Or ginally Jin bhadra Suri was from Delawara (Mewar). He travelled in Mewar and also died at Khumbhalgarh in VE 1514. The Patta has a beautiful scene of peacocks, gardens having the trees of plantain, Khajur, elephants standing on the banks of tanks and others. Several motifs are also given in it. It is strange that no Jain motifs except 2 or 3, are giyen in it. It has several Mantras written on it
श्री सर्वज्ञाय नमः | श्री त्रिपुराये नमः त्रिपुर सुन्दर्ये ह्रीं नमः श्री त्रिपुर भैरवी ह्रीं नम: त्रिपुर विजयाह्रीं नमः. ।....
Thus we may call it to have been painted in Mewar, at Delawara in VE 1504,