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ART-OBJECTS IN MUSEUMS
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garland-holding Vidyadhara and a kirttimukha in the centre above. The image can be of the Calukya period, ninth-tenth century.1
B. N. SHARMA
MUSEUM FÜR INDISCHE KUNST, BERLIN-DAHLEM
Dr Klaus Fischer of the Seminar of the Oriental Art-history, University of Bonn, has kindly brought to our notice the following outstanding Jaina sculptures in the Museum für indische Kunst, Berlin-Dahlem, and has also sent us their photographs, two of them reproduced here. He says that the photographs were sent to him by Professor H. Haertel, Director of the Museum, and the sculptures were partly described to him by Dr V. Moeller, Assistant Director.
(1) Red sandstone head of a Jina. Mathura region. Early Kushan." (2) Bronze standing Jina under a decorated tree, in two parts. Findspot unrecorded. Plate 326A.
(3) Bronze standing Jina surrounded by seated Jinas, with inscription on socle. South India. Medieval. Plate 326B.
(4) Stone Mahavira in kayotsarga, adoring and attending figures below and eight planets above. South India. Medieval.
(5) Stone Rşabba in kayotsarga, with attendant figures below and with four groups of three standing Tirthankaras on either side. Palma, District Manbhum. Medieval.
EDITOR
SOME JAINA BRONZES FROM AMERICAN COLLECTIONS
By and large the collection of Jaina images in American collections does not reveal the rich variety that may be seen in Indian collections. Nevertheless, there are a number of interesting and a few outstanding Jaina bronzes in America, and these will form the subject of discussion here.
[This section on Musée Guimet is based on the information very kindly supplied to the Bharatiya Jnanpith and the Editor by Mademoiselle M. Deneck, Curator of Musée Guimet, and Madame Odette Viennot. formerly of the National Research Centre, Paris. The latter also obliged the Jnanpith by sending photographs of the Jaina pieces in the Museum.-Editor.]
H. Haertel, Indische Skulpturen, Teil I, Die Werke der frühindischen, klassischen and frühmittelalterlischen Zeit, Berlin, 1960, p. 60, plate 19.
For a Palma sculpture, see above, plate 158B.
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