Jain Journal 1977 10

Author(s): Jain Bhawan Publication
Publisher: Jain Bhawan Publication

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in the art of statuary of the Indus Valley. A group of Olmec terracottas from Mexico will also indicate a similar inspiration. The doctrine of peace and non-violence preached by some of the early culture-heroes in America has the absorbing sublimity of the teachings of any Jaina or Buddhist missionary. Sometime it was like the preachings of a saint like Arhat Mahinda and his association with the rock of Mihintale in Sri Lanka. Donald A. Mackenzie recalls among others the legend of a saintly personage "called Wixepecocha by the Zapotecs who arrived by sea from the south-west”. (Ibid, pp.266-67). He was a celibate and "called for repentance and expiation.” As the legend goes, being
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The so-called 'Young-Huastecan' from San Luis Potosi, Mexico, appears as a saint in divine communion. So far seen from the photograph this naked body is covered with motifs representing flowers, gems, a stylised animal etc.
Reproduced from Indumentaria Mexicana, No. 77/78 Ano XIII, 1966, Plate 76.