Jain Journal 1980 04

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

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Main distribution of colouring is the same as in Fig. 7c, but the trousers are painted in Indian red having dull yellow floral ornaments. The disc has four concentric circles with colours like dull yellow, Indian red, dark blue, and light yellow and dark blue in the centre.
Below each figure a lion is depicted serving as a tutelary animal of brownish colour.
These paintings recall scenes from the drama Viddha-salabhanjikā referred to on p.151 of this article.
Reprinted from Journal of the Asiatic Society. Letters and Science Vol. XXIII, No. 1, 1957.
notes
1 Or the left hip, when the left arm is raised. 2 Heinrich Zimmer, The Art of Indian Asia, Its Mythology and Transformations,
completed and edited by J. Campbell, Bollingen Series XXXIX, Pantheon Books, New York, 1955, Volume One : Text, Volume two : Plates. See Fig. 33b : Culakoka Devata, Fig. 346 : Canda Yaksi, both from Bharhut, dated on the plates as 'Early first century B.C.'. Fig. 15 denoted as 'bracket figure' ‘yaksi', or 'vrksaka' (dryad) from Sanci, ascribed to the early first century A.D. on the plate. Figs. 74a and 766 denoted as tree-goddesses from Mathura, ascribed to the second century A.D. on the plate. Zimmer does not describe these motifs as salabhanjika. A. K. Coomaraswamy also does no use this term in his History of Indian and Indonesian Art, London, 1927. C. Sivaramamurti, however, used it in Amaravati Sculptures in the Madras Government Museum, Bulletin of the Madras Government Museum, New Series - General Section, Vol. IV, Madras, 1942, on pages 64, 65 and 79
(78). Cf. new print, Madras, 1956. • Acta Orientalia, Vol. VII, 1929, pp. 201-231. • Avadanasataka, century of edifying tales belonging to the Hinayana, ed. by
J. S. Speyer, Bibl. Buddh.III, St. Petersburg, 1902, pp.302f. • Sanskrit-Woerterbuch, O. Boehtlingk and R. Roth, St. Petersburg, 1852
1875, 7 vols, (abbrev. PW); (1) Statue (aus dem Holz der Vatica Robusta) (2) Bez eines best. Spiels, 3, Buhldirne. A Sanskrit-English Dictionary, Monier Williams (abbrev, MW), new print, Oxford, 1951 : an image or figure made of Sala - wood, a kind of game played in the east of India ; a harlot, courtezan. Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit Dictionary (abbrev. BHSD), Franklin Edgerton, New Haven, Yale University Press, 1953, records under salabhanjaka, ika (1) m. or nt, breaking of the Sala-branch, said of the Bodhisattva's mother in