04-14-2012, 12:00 AM
Description
English: Indian and Himalayan Art
Aspects of Violence (Himsa) Page from a manuscript of the Sangrahanisutra Made in Gujarat, India or Rajasthan, India
1663-64
Artist/maker unknown, India
Opaque watercolor on paper 4 3/8 x 10 inches (11.1 x 25.4 cm)
Currently not on view
1935-34-11(51,a) Purchased with the Francis T. S. Darley Fund, 1935
Label
According to the philosophy of the Jain religion, animals that are
violent to one another are reborn in hell as surely as men who practice
cruelty. Each hell has a matching image. The upper left is the first
hell for "unreasoning tigers," and the illustration shows a tiger
attacking a black buck antelope. The adjacent scenes show a domesticated
cheetah carrying a rodent, a bird of prey (perhaps a Eurasian sparrow
hawk) with a smaller bird in its beak, and a Gaja-Simha (mythical
elephant-lion) with its elephant prey. On the far left of the lower row,
a mongoose kills a snake. At the far right, a big fish eats a little
one, a scene described as "fish doing bloody deeds." Just to its left, a
man shoots rabbits, a scene described as "human beings doing bloody
deeds." The sixth hell (second from the left) shows a seated couple and
implies the violence of lovemaking.
Date
1663-64
Source
http://www.philamuseum.org/collections/ ... mulR=17986https://en.wikipedia.org/...Violence_%28Himsa%29.jpg {PD-1923}
English: Indian and Himalayan Art
Aspects of Violence (Himsa) Page from a manuscript of the Sangrahanisutra Made in Gujarat, India or Rajasthan, India
1663-64
Artist/maker unknown, India
Opaque watercolor on paper 4 3/8 x 10 inches (11.1 x 25.4 cm)
Currently not on view
1935-34-11(51,a) Purchased with the Francis T. S. Darley Fund, 1935
Label
According to the philosophy of the Jain religion, animals that are
violent to one another are reborn in hell as surely as men who practice
cruelty. Each hell has a matching image. The upper left is the first
hell for "unreasoning tigers," and the illustration shows a tiger
attacking a black buck antelope. The adjacent scenes show a domesticated
cheetah carrying a rodent, a bird of prey (perhaps a Eurasian sparrow
hawk) with a smaller bird in its beak, and a Gaja-Simha (mythical
elephant-lion) with its elephant prey. On the far left of the lower row,
a mongoose kills a snake. At the far right, a big fish eats a little
one, a scene described as "fish doing bloody deeds." Just to its left, a
man shoots rabbits, a scene described as "human beings doing bloody
deeds." The sixth hell (second from the left) shows a seated couple and
implies the violence of lovemaking.
Date
1663-64
Source
http://www.philamuseum.org/collections/ ... mulR=17986https://en.wikipedia.org/...Violence_%28Himsa%29.jpg {PD-1923}