Book Title: Manuscript Illustrations Of Uttaradhyayana Sutra
Author(s): W Norman Brown
Publisher: American Oriental Society

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________________ 34 KEŚI AND GAUTAMA JP has two paintings. The first (fig. 92) is of a monk as a perfected being (siddha). The pointed decoration behind his head and the rosary which he holds before him distinguish him from a Tirthamkara, and he is probably Gautama (cf. BrKS 39, 54, and figs. 82, 130-132). Below him is the plate of gold, like an inverted umbrella, above the mountains at the top of the universe, which marks off the abode of the released (cf. Chapter 28). In JP's second painting (fig. 93) Gautama and Keśi are seated beside a pool, with fish shown swimming around. In the lower register are three monks.

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