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: 395
A. D. 1601, from Mahavira Jaina Library, Delhi, and pointed to the use of cakadara and gheradāra jāmās. The farther eye is still protruding, though not as much as in the earlier Western Indian Miniatures, while the nose is pointed and the face angular.
The
Pramod Chandra" published a folio from the Matar Samgrahani Sutra dated A. D. 1583, showing cakadara (four-pointed) jämä. He also referred to the Uttaradhyayana-sutra dated 1591 A. D. (now in Baroda Museum) and pointed out Mughal influence in the Western Indian style of Gujarat, indicating the nature of the transformation. protruding eye disappears, the draftsmanship becomes considerably smoother though some angularity is still noticeable, while the treatment of architecture is more varied and men wear contemporary costumes of the Akbar period including the typical aṭpați pagadi. This Samgrahanisutra from the collections of Muni Sri Punyavijayaji, was painted at Matar (near Kaira-Kheda), (Central Gujarat) by one painter called. Govinda.
We reproduce here some more paintings from this Matar Samgrahani painted by Govinda to give a much better idea of the style, and of its richness. This work is called Laghu-samgrahani composed by Śrī-Candrasūri. We are cataloguing here only the important pictures, leaving aside the charts, diagrams, decorative designs, etc.
Laghu-Samgrahani painted at Matar in V. S. 1640 (= 1583 A. D.), from the collections of Muni Śrī Punyavijayaji, (No. 2686).
Size
26.3 x 11 cm.
Total folios
39
Date of Ms. and colophon संवत् १६४० वर्षे आसाद सुदि १५ तिथो रविवासरे श्री मातरपुरग्रामे लिखितं ॥ श्री ॥ श्री अंचलगच्छे श्री श्री श्री पूज्य भट्टारक श्री श्री श्री श्री श्री श्री श्री szágfügicasquet | Written in Sri Matarapura-grāma on Sunday, on the fifteenth day of the bright half of the month Aṣāḍha in the Samvat year 1640 (1583 A.D.), during the lordship of Bhattaraka Sri Dharmamurtisuri in the Añcalagaccha.
The manuscript seems to have been copied by Sri Gunanidhanasuri at the behest of Sri Dharmamûrtisûri, according to an entry on folio 20 A.
On folio 33b (Fig. 18) we find, written in golden letters, faru , i.e. Painter Govinda.
46 Khandalavala, Karl, Marg, XI, No. 2, pp. 4ff, fig. 3. 47 Pramod Chandra, Marg, Vol. XI, No. 2, pp. 33.