Jain Center Los Angeles CA 2008 09 Pratishta Souvenior

Author(s): Jain Center So CA Los Angeles
Publisher: USA Jain Center Southern California

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BESTUREN
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With the introduction of paper in the fifteenth century many Jain manuscripts became among the most elaborate and probably costly manuscripts to be produced. Lavish use of lapis lazuli and gold attests to the wealth and generosity of Jain patrons in Gujarat during the 15th century. Three pages from a Kalpasutra depict scenes associated with the events surrounding the conception of Mahavira. Indra, king of the gods, sits in heaven watching a performance by his celestial dancing girls when he realizes that the time had come for Mahavira to be born. He therefore ordered his commander, the goat-headed Harinaigamesin, who oversees matters associated with pregnancy and childbirth, to transfer the embryo of Mahavira from the womb of a Brahmin lady to that of the Kshatriya Queen Trisala.
com. CONSTITUTION
INDIA
Jain manuscript paintings are such a significant component in the history of Indian art that the modern artist Nandalal Bose (1882-1966) painted his version of a page from a Kalpasutra as a heading in the Constitution of India (Fig. 3). Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru asked Nandalal to illustrate India's new constitution after independence from British colonial rule was achieved in 1947. Nandalal placed a painting associated with a key passage from the history of Indian art at the heading of each major section of the Constitution. As such it was recognized that the devotional arts caused to be made by the Jains were an essential component of India's cultural heritage and and irrevocably embedded in the new nation's very constitution
We must replace an era of destruction and war with an era of ahimsa and peace.
Raj Shah, 15