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Prince Shreyamsa dreams of the coming of Rishabha, from a Panchakalyanaka (Five Auspicious Events)
1670–80
- Medium
- Gum tempera, ink, silver, and gold on paper
- Classification
- Painting
- Dimensions
- 26.7 x 42.5 cm (10 1/2 x 16 3/4 in.)
- Culture
- Northwestern India, Rajasthan, Rajput Kingdom of Amber
- Museum
- Cleveland Museum of Art, Indian and Southeast Asian Art
- Credit line
- Jo Hershey Selden 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
Dreams foretell important events in Indian literature. In this painting a prince lies half asleep and experiences eight visions, pictured above the reclining figure. At the right, the prince on the throne with the royal umbrella seeks help interpreting the dreams. They predicted the coming of Rishabha, the first Jina, who has been fasting for a full year. The prince then became the first person in the world to give proper alms, or pious offerings, to a Jina.
This painting is from a group that is recognized as the first Jain manuscript made in the form of a pictorial series, rather than a handwritten manuscript.
