Treasures from the Lalbhai Dalpatbhai Museum

Author(s): L D Indology Ahmedabad
Publisher: L D Indology Ahmedabad

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रूवसाहदि बनारामाणवधिमा अविद्यारयातसदमछाउंधकामसदालापाअंधदिछमा
16 Dancing and music
A folio from Sangrahani Sutra Gouache on paper Western Indian style, Dated A.D. 1583 Painted at Matar (Kheda District) Gujarat; Artist Govinda 26.5 x 11.0 cms
The Sangrahani Sutra is a compilation of Jain concepts, summarised by Maldhari Chandra Suri in Prakrit. It illustrates Jain concepts of cosmology, the nature and number of the upper and lower worlds and their inhabitants, etc. Chandra Suri is said to have composed the text in A.D. 1136. The folio shows male and female figures clad in contemporary Mughal costume for the first time and it continues in several versions of the same work up to at least A.D. 1700. We believe that it is from this period onwards that a marked
Mughal influence comes into paintings at Ahmedabad and its neighbourhood. A number of precisely dated examples of Mughal manuscripts have been discovered which were painted in Ahmedabad during this period. Published: 1. Moti Chandra and Umakant Shah, New Documents of
Jaina Painting. Sri Mahavira Jaina Vidyalaya, Bombay. 1975. J.P. Losty, Art of the Book in India, British Library, London, 1982. Shridhar Andhare, Painting Activity in and Around Ahmedabad. Anarta Vol. II November, 91, North Guj. University, Patan. 1991.
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