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Rishabha enthroned, folio 1 (verso) from a Yoga-shastra of Hemachandra
c. 1275
- Medium
- Gum tempera and ink on palm leaf
- Classification
- Painting
- Dimensions
- Overall: 5.3 x 30.2 cm (2 1/16 x 11 7/8 in.)
- Culture
- Western India, Gujarat
- Museum
- Cleveland Museum of Art, Indian and Southeast Asian Art
- Credit line
- Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its museum says too little about what it shows to place it for younger viewers. How works are placed
View at the Cleveland Museum of Art
About this work
The first to achieve liberation, according to followers of Jainism, is the golden Jina named Rishabha. He is shown seated in glory on the first page of a Sanskrit text on yoga and meditation. This manuscript begins on the verso; the recto was left blank.
