Mahavira Jain Vidyalay Suvarna Mahotsav Granth Part 1

Author(s): Mahavir Jain Vidyalaya Mumbai
Publisher: Mahavir Jain Vidyalay

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382 : SHRI MAHAVIRA JAINA VIDYALAYA GOLDEN JUBILEE VOLUME
cloth (a candaravo). Before him lies the sthapanācārya31 and a pupil is seated nearby. In the foreground appears another disciple. Gold used in tapestry; ultramarine background. Size 11 x 6.7 cm.. Folio 73 B : Kāmatha Tāpasa and Pārsva.
The upper panel shows the hermit Kāmatha practising penance surrounded by five fires. Deep ultramarine background.
The lower panel shows young Pārśva with a snake; behind him stands a servant. Size : 7.5 x 10.5 cm.
Folio 107 A : Vajra in his cradle.
The child who later became the great Jaina monk Vajrasyāmi is depicted here as sitting in cradle and attended by a Jaina nun sitting by the side of the cradle. Most of the figures are painted in gold, blue background, occasionally red and black background.32 Size : 7.5 x 10.5 cm.
(Colour plate II, Fig. III)
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Uttarādhyayana-sútra copied at Patan (North Gujarat) dated 1549 V. S. (=1492 A. D.) from the Collections of Muni Sri Funyavijayaji (No. 1/30). Size : 30.4 x 11.9 cm.
Total folios : 91. Colophon : In the handwriting of the scribe of this manuscript, written in black ink on f. 91, is the following entry-99 $489 et Ath a PX ITI उत्तराषाढा नक्षत्रे ।
In the Samvat year 1549 (= 1492 A. D.) in the month of Pausa, the 14th day of dark fortnight, on Thursday, in Uttarāṣādha asterism.
Later on in a different handwriting in red a long entry is made which says that in Samvat 1599, the Saka year 1464, Dośi Bhādā, his brother, wife and son and a Śrāvikā named Lädikī presented a copy of the Uttaradhyayana sūtra to their teacher at the behest on Punyaprabhasūri providing with an avacūri or annotation (sävacūrimayi likhāpya). The donors, belonging to the śrīmāli caste, were residents of Patan.
Since two clear dates appear the reasonable inference would be that the original copy was written and painted in 1549 V. S. (=1492
31 For Sthāpanācārya, see, Shah, U. P., Studies In Jaina Art (Banaras,
1954), pp. 113-115. 32 Compare for treatment of this theme, Brown, W. Norman, A
Descriptive and Illustrated Catalogue of Miniature Paintings of the Jaina Kalpasūtra (Washington, 1939), pp. 59, 61 and figures 142, 143,