A LARGE JAIN ILLUSTRATION OF THE WORLD OF MORTALS GUJARAT,...
A LARGE JAIN ILLUSTRATION OF THE WORLD OF MORTALS GUJARAT, NORTH WEST INDIA, 17TH CENTURY
Opaque pigments on textile, the green-bodied deity, possibly the Goddess Padmavati, encompasses a diagram of the world, the three island-continents separated by rivers, the world of Gods in the centre .Inscriptions in devanagari script around.
128 by 85 cm.
Footnotes
Compare with another large and rare early example in the Philadelphia Museum of Art (see Pratapaditya Pal, The Peaceful Liberators: Jain Art from India, Los Angeles, 1994, no. 100, p. 227.)
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A LARGE JAIN ILLUSTRATION OF THE WORLD OF MORTALS GUJARAT, NORTH WEST INDIA, 17TH CENTURY
Opaque pigments on textile, the green-bodied deity, possibly the Goddess Padmavati, encompasses a diagram of the world, the three island-continents separated by rivers, the world of Gods in the centre .Inscriptions in devanagari script around.
128 by 85 cm.
Footnotes
Compare with another large and rare early example in the Philadelphia Museum of Art (see Pratapaditya Pal, The Peaceful Liberators: Jain Art from India, Los Angeles, 1994, no. 100, p. 227.)
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