Digital Rare Book:
On the Indian sect of the Jainas
Translated from the German by Johann Georg Buhler
Edited with an outline of Jaina mythology by James Burgess
Published by Luzac & Co., London - 1903

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Image:
A seated figure of Chandraprabha, the eighth Tirthankara (perfected saint) of the present age. Sculpted for a shrine of the Digambara "sky-clad" sect of the Jaina Religion. Seated in the invariable pose of the Jinas in meditation (dhyana mudra) with the legs closely interlocked and hands resting in the lap. He wears a hemispherical cap, has the Shrivatsa on the breast, and is entirely nude. His cognisance (lanchanna) is the Crescent Moon (chandra) which is missing.

Jaipur, India
19th century
White marble

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