Mahavira Jain Vidyalay Suvarna Mahotsav Granth Part 1

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

Page 936

NEW DOCUMENTS OF JAINA PAINTINGS: 407
background. The monk is seated to the right wearing a brocade-cadar. They stand in front with folded hands. Size: 8.7 x 11.2 cm.
Folio 7B
King Prasannacandra's Penance.
After renouncing his kingdom King Prasanna Candra became. a Jaina monk. King Srenika, on his way to meet Mahavira, saw him. practising penance and paid his respects to him.
In the upper panel, Srenika with two attendants is paying respects to Mahavira seated on a full-blown multi-petalled lotus. Red background.
In the lower panel, Prasannacandra is practising penance in a standing position. Srenika alighting from his winged horse is touching his feet. Yellow background with a tree. Size: 8.6 x 11.1 cm.
Folio 10 A: Incident from the story of Bahubali.
Bahubali, the elder son of Risabhanatha, is practising penance in a beautiful landscape with flowering trees and shrubs and a cloudy sky with flying geese. On the right stands Bahubali with creepers entwining his body and a parrot and a flamingo perched on his shoulders. Standing before him is one of his sisters advising him to give up his subtle ego. Lacquer red background. Size: 8.8 x 11.1 cm.
Folio 17 A: The Story of Anangasena.
Anangasena, a goldsmith, had 500 wives was. He very distrustful of them and allowed each of them to bathe and decorate herself only when her turn came. Once while he was away, they bathed and decorated themselves. The husband appeared by chance and in anger killed his old wife and was about to kill others, when they threw mirrors at him and killed him. In one of his subsequent lives he was born a woman and accepted several Bhils (who were his previous wives) as husbands.
In the upper panel, Mahavira, attended by his disciple, is conversing with two Bhils armed with bows and Lacquer red. background. The lower panel shows the goldsmith reborn as a woman, in the company of the Bhils. Size: 10.1 x 11.2 cm.
Folio 22 A: Incident from the story of Jambūkumara with his wives.
It refers to that part of the story in which Jambukumāra with his wives is approached by the thief Prabhava to teach him the magic of control (Stambhini Vidya) but instead, Jambû converts him to Jainism.