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| Keywords: Indian - Jina Parshvanatha with Attendants - Walters 543013.jpg This image portrays the Jina Parshvanatha who is distinguished from the other twenty-three Jinas of the Jain pantheon by the seven-hooded snake that forms a canopy over his head Otherwise he does not differ from the others and typically is an impassive naked figure seated in the classic posture of meditation with his hands placed on his lap in a gesture of contemplation dhyanamudra The nudity of the figure indicates that the donor unnamed in the dedicatory inscription belonged to the Digambara sky-clad order of Jainism which predominates in Karnataka Parshvanatha is one of the twenty-four Jinas or liberated teachers worshipped by the Jains Various tutelary and protective divinities of both sexes are also worshipped but they are subservient to the twenty-four Jinas Hence two such deities are represented here as diminutive figures standing in attendance in front of the tiered base The male on the Jina's right is Dharana and the female opposite is Padmavati Although called yaksha and yakshi rather than deva or devi like the Hindu or Buddhist deities they have multiple limbs and are venerated in a similar fashion 1589 brass cm 22 2 accession number 54 3013 17363 John and Berthe Ford Baltimore date and mode of acquisition unknown Walters Art Museum John Berthe Ford 2002 Inscr effaced Desire and Devotion Art from India Nepal and Tibet in the John and Berthe Ford Collection The Walters Art Museum Baltimore; Birmingham Museum of Art Birmingham; Santa Barbara Museum of Art Santa Barbara; Albuquerque Museum Albuquerque 2001-2003 place of origin Karnataka India Walters Art Museum license Art of India in the Walters Art Museum Media contributed by the Walters Art Museum needs category review Parshvanatha | ||||
