Mahavira Jain Vidyalay Suvarna Mahotsav Granth Part 1

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

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392 : SHRI MAHAVIRA JAINA VIDYALAYA GOLDEN JUBILEE VOLUME
The miniature is in popular Mughal style which though based on Mughal style lacks its courtly refinement. Such pictures were apparently in great demand in the cities of Agra, Delhi, and other places.38 Size : 10.2 x 10 cm.
Folio 24 A : The Lamentation of Rati.
The picture is based on the verse of Kumārasambhava beginning with 374 at gaia fem...... (Kumārasambhava, IV, 4).
The scene is laid in a forest with rivulet in the foreground. The background is purple and covered with flowering shrubs and some trees. On the extreme right, Rati wearing a transparent carmine odhaṇī, blue coli, yellow skirt and ornaments is seated under a tree in a very sorrowful mood.
On the right stands an attendant trying to console her. In between them is represented a flaming fire apparently symbolizing the fire of Siva's anger which had reduced her husband Kāma to ashes. Blue and white sky.39 Size : 10.2 x 10 cm. approx. (Fig. 15)
Folio 29 A : Pārvati proceeding to the Himalayas for practising penance.
The scene is laid in a rocky landscape covered with trees, birds and animals, the green background is covered with flowering shrubs, while the sky is blue, white and carmine. On the left, stands confidante of Pārvati on a mountain top. In the centre stands Pārvati dressed as a female ascetic feeding grass to her pet deer.
Note the treatment of trees and the rocks which have been borrowed from the Mughal painting. Size : 10 x 10.4 cm.
Folio 39 A : Pārvati's Message to Siva.
The scene is based upon the beginning verse of canto VI of Kumārasambhava. The scene islaid in the sylvan quiet of the Himalayas. Against the saffron background are painted flowering trees, shrubs and creepers, and the blue and white sky. On the right, resting against a tree is Parvati holding its branch with her right hand. The confidante stands facing her with her right hand resting on a flower and the left one playing with a creeper.
38 Miniature Paintings from Sri Motichandra Khajanchi collection, p. 15. 39 Khandalavala & Motichandra, Collection of Sir Cowasji Jehangir
Miniatures and Sculptures (Bombay, 1965), plate D.