Mahavira Jain Vidyalay Suvarna Mahotsav Granth Part 1

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

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384 : SHRI MAHAVIRA JAINA VIDYALAYA GOLDEN JUBILEE VOLUME
Folio 8 B: Kșullaka Nirgrantha.
Probably the story of an ordinary (kşullaka) monk (Nirgrantha): The scene refers to ch. VI of the Uttarādhyayana-sūtra and depicts a Jaina lay woman in the act of giving alms to two Jaina monks standing in front. The first monk seems to be the teacher while the second one is a disciple, an ordinary monk who does not fully adhere to the rules laid down for monks in receiving alms of rich or costly, delicious recipes. Between the monks and the lady are shown three utensils full of the delicious preparations. Note the treatment of the pointed end of the sūrī of the rich lady34, Size : 7.2 x 11.9 cm. approx.
Madhavanala-Kamakandala Katha dated in V. S. 1550 ( = 1493 A.D.), written at Patan, collections of Muni Sri Punyavijayaji (No. 1/81). Size of Manuscript : 25.3 x 11.5 cm.
Total folios : 26 Language : Sanskrit with interspersed old Gujarati prose. Colophon : इति माधवानलकामकंदलासंयोग कथा संपूर्णा समाप्ता ॥ स्वस्ति श्री संवत् १५५० वर्षे वैशाख वदि ११ गुरौ अद्येह श्रीपत्तनमध्ये प्राग्वाटज्ञातीय गांधी सोमा सुत गांधी सिवा पुत्र गांधी षीमा हेमा अप्पा लिप्पिता पठनार्थ ॥छ॥
Here ends the story of union of Madhavānala (and) Kāmakandalā. In Samyat year 1550, on Thursday the eleventh day of the dark fortnight of the month of Vaišākha, to-day here in the city of Śrī-Pattana, was this copied by Gandhi Khimā (and) Hemā, the son of Gandhi Siva, the son of Gandhi Somā of Prāgvāta family, for his own reading (study). Condition fair with edges worn out.
This dated and illustrated manuscript, in the tradition of the Vasanta-viläsa scroll35 was painted at Sri Pattana, i. e. Anahilavada Patan, North Gujarat. The illustrations of this manuscript are better preserved than those of the Damayanti-Kathā.
Of the Madhavānala-Kämakandalā story, several illustrated scenes are known three of which are published in the Catalogue of Paintings in Shri Motichand Khajanchi Collection, Fig. No. 24 and colour plate B, pp. 27-29, and assigned to only seventeenth century A.D. Like Vasanta-vilása the Madhavanala-Kamakandala-Katha is of a secular nature. Folio 13 A : Kāmakandalā suffering the pangs of separation.
The illustration covers the full length of the lower half of the page; in the upper margin appears the label: "Kāmakandalā tormented
34 Compare Brown W. Norman, op. cit., Figs. 15-16, 26, 86-87, 135. 35 Brown. W. Norman, The Vasanta-Viläsa, pp. 145 ff.