A Western Indian brass Jain altar of a tirthankara. Dated SV 1600 (1544/45)

A Western Indian brass Jain altar of a tirthankara. Dated SV 1600 (1544/45) A Jina is depicted seated in padmasana on a throne supported by two lions, sheltered beneath a canopy borne by elephants and set before a makaratorana. He is flanked by twenty-three additional standing and seated Jinas, together with attendant figures. At the sides of the throne and in the lower register appear the yakshas Yaksheshvara and Manavi (Gauri), the Nine Planets (Navagraha), as well as further yakshis and apsaras. Inscribed and dated on the reverse and on the front of the base. Height 27.2 cm

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