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A LARGE BRASS JAIN SHRINE Arte sagrado de las tradiciones índicas: hinduismo, budismo y
Western India, dated 1464 jainismo, Caixa de Girona, May 2005 - May 2005; Casa Asia,
The tirthankara sits under a parasol on a cushioned throne, Barcelona, May 2005 - November 2005.
accompanied by 55 jinas; a four-line inscription on the reverse,
dated Samvat 1521 (1464 CE). Published
15 3/4 in. (40 cm) high Arte sagrado de las tradiciones índicas: hinduismo, budismo y
$30,000 - 50,000 jainismo, Barcelona, 2005, pp. 150-1, no. 24.

In discussion of a closely related altarpiece of Parsavanatha held in the Provenance
Norton Simon Museum, Pal writes that these shrines are ‘a technical Private European Collection, 1980s
tour de force of complex casting...virtually all the figures provide clear Private Collection, acquired in 1997
silhouettes” (Pal, Peaceful Liberators, New York, 1994, no. 37). Private American Collection, 2008-2015

Below the Tirthankara, sits Lakshmi flanked by two elephants and
lions and then his attendant yaksha and yakshi. The fifty-five jinas
evoke his samavasarana, the Tirthankara’s divine preaching hall. Their
multitude also recalls the existence of an infinity of jinas throughout the
cosmic eras (ibid., p. 33).

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