Jain sculpture

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Jain sculptures or Jain idols are the images depicting

Kushan period from Mathura.[4]

Iconography

Image depicting Suparshvanatha, the seventh tirthankara of present half cycle of time

The Jain idols are males depicted in both sitting and standing postures.

Svetambara depiction of idols.[5] Digambara images are naked without any beautification whereas Svetambara ones are clothed and decorated with temporary ornaments.[5]

Jivantasvami

The Jivantasvami images represent Lord Mahavira (and in some cases other Tirthankaras) as a prince, with a crown and ornaments. The Jina is represented as standing in the kayotsarga pose.[8][9]

Examples

Giant rock-cut statues of Jain Tirthankaras are carved in the

Gopachal Hill, Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh.[10][11]

Charans are footprints exclusive to Jain temples. The charan of Tirthankara Rishabhanatha are present at the Badrinath Temple.[citation needed]

Akota Bronzes and Vasantgarh hoard of Gujarat; Hansi hoard of Haryana, Chausa hoard and Aluara bronzes from Bihar.

In Tamil Nadu

Sculpture depicting Tirthankara Parshvanatha, Thirakoil, Tamil Nadu

Jainism spread here and there all over

Buddha
.

Kalugumalai Jain Beds near Madurai belongs to one century latter is to be compared with Thirpparankunram Jain sculpture. In addition a propelling stone statue of a Jain monk mentioned in Tamil literature is also present. Cave inscriptions in Brahmi script of Chera kings in Pugalur probably one century earlier to that of the literature we have taken to our consideration, names some of the Jain Monks vs Yatrur Senkayapan, Pittan, Kotran. Pittan and Kotran are the chieftains of Tamil Nadu also mentioned in Tamil literature more or less to the same period.

In museums

Lohanipur torso found in a central Division of Patna, ancient Pataliputra, dates back to 3rd century BCE.[12] Some of the oldest Jain sculptures excaved at Kankali Tila are in the Government Museum, Mathura.[13] Many Jain sculptures are kept in Government Museum, Chennai.[14][15]

The oldest Jain sculpture in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York is of the Siddha Bahubali.[16]

Jain vs Buddhist iconography

A Buddhist image can be in one of several

Buddha
can be similar. The Buddha statue has folds of the cloth on the upperbody, with cloth behind the left arm, where as the Jina statue is without clothes, unless it is a Shwetambara image which shows "kandora" folds.

Chronological Gallery: Kayotsarga Statues

Chronological Gallery: Padmasana Statues

Deities Gallery

Colossal statues

See also

Notes

  1. ^ "Jainism". 22 March 2011.
  2. ^ Asia Society: The Collection In Context
  3. ^ Indian Sculpture: Circa 500 B.C.-A.D. 700, Volume 1 of Indian Sculpture: A Catalogue of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Pratapaditya Pal, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, University of California Press, 1986 p. 22
  4. . Retrieved 15 January 2018 – via Google Books.
  5. ^ a b c Cort 2010.
  6. ^ Zimmer 1953, p. 209-210.
  7. ^ Pereira 1977, p. 9.
  8. ^ Shah 1995, p. 15.
  9. ^ Shah 1987, p. 35.
  10. ^ worldvisitguide.com
  11. ^ Jain sculptures in Gwalior - Abiyoyo
  12. ^ Olivelle 2006, p. 399.
  13. ^ Das 1980, p. 171.
  14. ^ "Government Museum Chennai". Archived from the original on 12 January 2015. Retrieved 13 January 2015.
  15. ^ "Government Museum Chennai". Archived from the original on 12 January 2015. Retrieved 13 January 2015.
  16. ^ "Jain Siddha Bahubali, Entwined with Forest Vines". The Met’s Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History.

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