Jain sculpture

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Jain sculptures or Jain idols are images depicting Tirthankaras (teaching the god). These images are worshiped by followers of Jainism. The statue can depict one of the twenty-four with images depicting Parshvanatha, Rishabhanatha, or Mah? V? Ra is becoming more popular. Jain sculptures is an example of Jain art. There is a long history of Jain sculpture development. Early examples include Lohanipur Torsos which has been deemed to have originated from the Maurya period, and drawings of the Kushan period from Mathura.

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Iconography

Idol Jain is the man who is depicted in a sitting and standing position. The t? Rtha? Karas is represented either Padmasana (sitting in yoga posture) or standing in Kayotsarga posture . Parshvanatha the statue is usually depicted with a crown of snakes on the head, the statue of Bahubali is usually described covered by vines. However, there are some differences in Digambara and Svetambara's depiction of idols. Digambara nude pictures without any beauty whereas Svetambara is dressed and decorated with temporary ornaments.

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Example

The giant stone statues of Jain Tirthankaras are carved on Gopachal Hill, Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh.

Charans is an exclusive footprint to the Jain temple. Charan Tirthankara Rishabhanatha was present at the Badrinath Shrine.

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In Tamil Nadu

Jainism spread here and there throughout Tamil Nadu during the Sangam Times. One of the Tamil literature, called Paripadal (???????), probably belongs to the 3rd century, mentions that there are statues that move the carvings in stone to different gods at the temple of the Murugan God at Thirupparankundram. One of them is the Jain statue. The others are Kaaman-Rathi (the gods of Love), the Indira God (the king called the Celestial people according to Indian mythology), Agaligai (wife of Saint Gaudham), and Buddha.

The statue of Jain in Kalugumalai near Madurai belonging to the last century should be compared with the Thirpparankunram Jain statue. In addition, the stone statue raised from a Jain monk mentioned in Tamil literature also exists. Cave inscriptions in the Brahmi script of the Chera kings in Pugalur may be a century earlier than the literature we have considered, mentioning some of Jain Monks vs. Yatrur Senkayapan, Pittan, Kotran. Pittan and Kotran were the chiefs of Tamil Nadu who were also mentioned in Tamil literature more or less during the same period.

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In the museum

Some of the oldest Jain statues that are excluded in Kankali Tila are at the Government Museum, Mathura. Many Jain statues are kept at the Government Museum, Chennai

The oldest Jain statue at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York is from Siddha Bahubali.

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Jain vs Buddhist iconography

The image of Buddha can be in one of several mudras. But the image of Jain's tirthankara can only be in one of two formats. In Padmasana, the statutes of a Jina and Buddha can be similar. The Buddha statue has a folding fabric at the top, with a cloth behind the left arm, where as a Jina statue without clothes, except it is a Shwetambara image showing dhoti folds like a fan.

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Chronology Gallery: Kayotsarga Statue

Chronological Gallery: Statue Padmasana,

See also

• Akota Bronze
• Chausa hoards
• Thirakoil
• Jain architecture
• Jain Temple

Note

References

• Pereira, JosÃÆ'Â © (1977), Monolithic Jinas , Motilal Banarsidass, ISBN 0-8426-1027-8
Cite, John E. (2010) [1953], Frame Jina: Narrative Icons and Idols in Jain History , Oxford University Press, ISBN 978-0-19-538502-1
• Zimmer, Heinrich (1953), Joseph Campbell, ed., Indian Philosophy , London, E.C. 4: Routledge & amp; Kegan Paul Ltd, ISBN 978-81-208-0739-6

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