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PERCEPTUAL ENUMERATION OF REALITY IN A JAIN BRONZE
concept of Bhava Samvara is, thus, also manifested perceptually. Through a few potentially suggestive denotational schemes, like elements of human anatomy, such vivifications are emphatically aroused in the viewer.
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Enumeration of Retinal Presence-Samsthana-vicaya Dhyana
On the onset three basic determining factors of this enumeration are required to be recounted. These are the mass and matter of the sculpture, conditioning of the gravity and resultant effects in vectors and gamma motions, and lastly the placing of the sculpture.
We start with taking up the last factor first. It is given as granted that the sculpture is/was kept on a Vedi of no mean height, and that the viewer's glance followed a particular pattern of viewing. This pattern of viewing is conditioned by human experience under the domain of gravity and results into a simple spatial definition, i.e., into a grid of horizontals and verticals. This value system of Lokakasa subjects the viewer's glance to fixate the point of start on the heaviest looking mass, i.e., the seat of the figure of Tirthankara. From this fixating point the viewer's glance is subtly and dynamically shoved off upward. How it happens? The subject matter of the following paragraphs explains this perceptual progress. But firstly the perceptual heaviness of the seat is required to be defined especially since, in fact, the material of the body of the figure is certainly heavier than that of the seat.
The seat, owing to its severe geometric form, detaches itself from the figure. For, the latter is perceived as having significantly denotative rhythms in contrast with the stark geometry of the earlier. The seat is formed by
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