Mahavira Jain Vidyalay Suvarna Mahotsav Granth Part 1

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

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NEW DOCUMENTS OF JAINA PAINTINGS: 393
Note that the figures of Pärvat! and her confidante are not wooden, but full of movements and their facial expressions convey their emotions. Size: 10 x 10.4 cm.
Folio 56 B: The Marriage of Siva and Parvati.
The marriage pavilion is represented by a pile of pitchers and a plantain tree on either side. Śiva wearing the tigerskin and snakeornaments is seated on the right holding with the left hand Pärvati's bridal cadar and with the right, one of her hands. She wears a simple bridal costume consisting of a tiera, red cådar and yellow skirt. Red background with Vandanavara. Size: 10 x 10.2 cm.approx.
GROUP IV
Miniature Paintings of the Samgrahani-sütra.
Kierfel, in his Cosmographie der Inder, has given an account of cosmographical belief, according to Jaina traditions. His information is based on Jaina canonical texts and especially on the Bṛhat-Samgrahanisutra (also called Trailokya-dipika) of Sri Jinabhadragani Kşamasramana written in the sixth century and the Samgrahani-sütra composed by Śricandra Suri41 in 1136 A. D. Devabhadra Suri, who wrote a commentary on Kṣetrasamãsa12-another cosmological text-in 1176 A.D. also wrote a commentry on Śricandra's Samgrahani. Several texts, entitled Samgrahani-sütra, composed by different writers, are available in the Jaina Bhandars, but the works of Jinabhadragani and śricandra Sūri are the most popular.43 He has also composed the Laghu
40 Kierfel, Cosmographie Der Inder, (Leipzig, 1920), and plates. There are several published editions of the Bṛhat-Samgrahani-sütra of Jinabhadragani Kśamaśramana :
(1) Published by Sri Bhimsi Manek, Bombay, containing 312 gāthās. (2) Published with the comm. of Malayagirisüri, by Sri Atmananda Sabha, Bhavnagar, and contaning 353 gāthās.
(3) In the Laghu-Prakaraṇa-Samgraha, this work is published and contains 349 gathās.
42 For Sricandra Süri, See M. D. Desai, Jaina Sahityano Itihasa, pp. 253-54.
A Kṣetrasamäsavṛtti is also composed by Haribhadrasūri in V. S.
1285.
43 The Brhat-Samgrahani of Sricandra, with commentary of Devabhadra, is published in Sheth Devachand Lalbhai Series, and has 273 gåthås.