Lot 21 Dα

A copper alloy Jain altar with tirthankara Vasupujya. Gujarat/Rajasthan. Dated 1465

A Rajasthani copper alloy shrine of Jain tirthankara Shreyansanatha with a silver shrivatsa on his chest, seated in meditation on a throne supported by two lions, underneath an umbrella held by two elephants. The cognisance (chihna) between the two lions shows a water buffalo (khadga), the chihna of the twelfth tirthankara. Shreyansanatha is surrounded by seated and standing jinas, on the front of the base the Nine Planets (navagraha) and devotees. Inscription at the back dated samvat 1522 (= 1465).
Height 16.6 cm