Jina Parshvanatha

Jina Parshvanatha

This sculpture depicts one of the 24 Jina, or 'liberated souls' of the Jain religion, the 23rd Jina Parshvanatha. Jina images are represented either seated in meditation of, as here, standing in a posture of abandoning the body, an act of severe penance undertaken on the path of spiritual liberation. This image of Parshvanatha dates from the twelfth or thirteenth century and belongs to the Digambara, or 'sky-clad' sect of Jainism, whose ascetic followers renounce all worldly possessions. With his multiheaded snake canopy, Parsvanatha is the most readily identified of the 24 Jinas. This imagery derives from the Jain legend of the serpent king Dharana, who protected the Jina with the coils of his body and sheltered him with his sevenheaded hood. On the base of the sculpture is an inscription recording that it was commissioned as part of the renovation of a Jain temple at Yalburga in Karnataka, southern India, in the reign of one Mummudi Singa. The name of the sponsor and the sculptor (Chakravarti Paloja) are recorded, the latter a rare occurrence in Indian art.

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