THE BIRTH OF A JINA Gujarat, North Western India, first half 19th century Opaque pigments on paper, the vertical composition a page from a Jain manuscript portraying the birth of a baby Jina in consequential stages, the scene at the bottom the actual birth, on the top right the baby being showered by Indra and Indrani with flowers whilst being hold by midwives, to the left a palatial interior scene with a ruler, possibly the father, looking at the showering scene, the colours bold, the composition fairly static in tune with Jain painting's tradition, mounted on later cream-coloured paper, 28.6cm x 18.7cm. For a similar example from this present series, please see P. Pal, The Peaceful Liberators: Jain Art from India, Los Angeles, 1995, p. 50, no. 108.