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 : 403
wayward or indulgent (pramatta) monk who prefers to be carried by another monk.
The lower panel refers to a verse which says As a bitch with running ears is driven away from everywhere, so a disobedient, subversive, talkative disciple is driven away. A pig will leave a milk porridge to eat faeces : so a disobedient disciple will leave virtue to savor the false'. (Brown, op. cit., p. 6).
Here, a woman seated on a stool, is shown driving away a pig and a bitch with a stick. Blue background, gold profusely used for all paintings of men and women, animals, plants, trees etc. The fine brush work is noteworthy. The farther eye appears sometimes, while the costume seems to exhibit typically local traditions of Kaccha. Size : 10.5 x 8.5 cm.
Folio 4 B: Obstacles in the ways of monks.
The painting refers to the chapter on the twenty-two parisahas or obstacles like hunger, thirst, cold, heat etc.
In the upper panel a monk is entering a cave; next he is shown as begging; a bhāranda bird with two faces is in front. In the next panel two dancers are performing a dance and another man wearing a turban (an attendant ?) is holding the hair of someone sitting on his knees. In the lowest compartment a nobleman is seen lying down on a cot. Ultramarine background decorated with four-leafed white flowers. The figures are all painted in gold.
Note the pointed ends of the jämă of the two male dancers in the central panel. Size : 10.5 x 8.3 cm.
(Figs. 21, 22) Folio 20 A: Unidentified scenes.
The painting is divided into three panels, the top shows a stylised tree with two men on top. A monk with two bowls is seated in front on a small mat; on the other end yet another monk. Gold in body colour etc. Ultramarine background with red used as background to the heads of the monks.
The central panel shows a bearded monk, conversing with a woman. Size : 10.5 x 8.6 cm.
Folio 40 A : Some Episodes from the story of Jayaghoșa.
• The story refers to Jayaghoșa, a Brāhmaṇa who in the course of his travels arrived at Banaras. There another Brāhmaṇa, Vijayaghosa, who was holding a sacrifice would not allow him to attend it since