Pata (Pichvai) of the Jain Pilgrimage centre of Satrunyaya

Description:

North West India, Rajasthan, 18th/ 19th c.
297 x 252 cm
Opaque pigments on cotton. The painting shows an aerial view on the shrine, with various processions of men, women and monks in pilgrimage to the different Jain shrines. The Jain Gods are arranged in niches within larger temples, set in a hilly landscape with trees and caved. This is where "Rishabhanatha", the first Jain, attained perfect knowledge. Monumental paintings such as this one served a surrogate for those unable to visit the shrines. The complex is divided in two parts, the one on the left was built by Kumarapala in 1213 and dedicated to the Jain Adinath, while the one on the right was established later by Jain merchants.
From an important private collection in Northern Germany, collected mainly in India from the early 1950s to the 1980s - Published in the Tantra exhibition, Tokyo, 26.11. - 8.12. 1979, catalogue no. 141 - Minor wear, slightly stained, slight age damage