Lot Essay
Pratyangira is a powerful deity associated with Hindu, Jain and Buddhist traditions. For a further discussion on Jain yantras, see P. Pal, Peaceful Liberators, 1994, pp.228-229.
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INDIA, RAJASTHAN, 17TH CENTURY
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A Jain Tantric Diagram with Pratyangira
India, Rajasthan, 17th Century
Painted against a red foliate ground with scattered elephants and peacocks, depicting the goddess Pratyangira at the center of a six-pointed star and lotus diagram encircled by sacred syllables and the 24 Tirthankaras, with a smaller circular diagram at top featuring a elephants lustrating Devi, also with Parsvanatha at top left in a circular aureole and a nagaraja at top right, bordered at the sides and bottom with rectangular niches of deities and dancers, and below two praying Swetambara monks seated in shrines and a row of praying disciples, inscribed in Devanagari and backed on cloth
44¼ x 31 in. (112.4 x 78.7 cm.)
India, Rajasthan, 17th Century
Painted against a red foliate ground with scattered elephants and peacocks, depicting the goddess Pratyangira at the center of a six-pointed star and lotus diagram encircled by sacred syllables and the 24 Tirthankaras, with a smaller circular diagram at top featuring a elephants lustrating Devi, also with Parsvanatha at top left in a circular aureole and a nagaraja at top right, bordered at the sides and bottom with rectangular niches of deities and dancers, and below two praying Swetambara monks seated in shrines and a row of praying disciples, inscribed in Devanagari and backed on cloth
44¼ x 31 in. (112.4 x 78.7 cm.)