Jain Wood Carvings

Author(s): V P Dwivedi
Publisher: Z_Kailashchandra_Shastri_Abhinandan_Granth_012048.pdf

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Many Jaina carvings have found houses in various museums. The National Museum, New Delhi has an exquisite example of late sixteenth or early seventeenth century mandapa of a homeshrine. Sixteen apearäs adorn its dome and remind the viewer of the Mt, Abu temples in stone (fig. 2). The museum also has a door-frame (caukhat) of a Jaina house (evident from Jaina Tirthankara image)11 (fig. 3) a small door of a home shrine1 (carved with fourteen dreams) and a window framels identified by Tirthankara figure), etc.
The Prince of Wales Museum, Bombay also has a wooden mandapa of a home shrine of c. 1600 A. D,14
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