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PERCEPTUAL ENUMERATION OF REALITY IN A JAIN BRONZE
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Within the monumentality of the pyramidal form of Tirthankara the lively thrusts of gamma motions and dynamo of Prana and its upward working are generated. The force of central verticality is reinforced by the repetition of crescendo and decrescendo movements from broad knee-line to the wide shoulders through the slender waist line, and from thin waist to the apex of the head through the broad shoulder resiliently. This aids to the stroboscopic movement starting from the base of the seat and reaching upward beyond the head. The inversed and small isoscelles triangle governing the structure from broad shoulders to its apex at the center of the chest is so given as to detach the glance of the viewer from the powerful centre of attraction—the face (being the seat of perception and reasoning), with its dynamically thrusting line of force. From the centre of the chest to the knee-line the structural framework is again that of an isoscelles triangle, which, obviously, on account of short exposure, gives a violent thrust to the central vertical. Thus, with the opposite forces so meeting at the resisting center of the chest, the centre gets dominance and heaviness. A projection towards this central apex is sent forth from the broad base at the back of the figure through the line of force of the triangular prism thus formed. Hence, dynamo of projecting Prana is added to the perceptively felt centrifugal force of the cylindrical body. Kinesthatically the viewer feels the lightness of this vitally full-blown chest. From this point of ascending Prana the thrust upward works dynamically, firstly owing to the line of force of the isoscelles triangle formed having its base at the chest and apex on the head. And secondly, since the radiating seat of perception and reasoning--the headsuddenly becomes the fixating centre. Emphatically the
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