Re: [INDOLOGY] Tīrthaṅkara w/ ūrdhvatilaka?

[Dominik Wujastyk]

My very subjective impression, gained after ten seconds of intense scrutiny
:-), is that this snakes and ladders painting is modern, perhaps late 20th
century.  It's an indefinable impression based on the loose script,
colours, and lax work on brush and pen strokes.  I may be wrong!  About the
tilaka, I don't know.

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Singhmar Chair in Classical Indian Society and Polity
Department of History and Classics <http://historyandclassics.ualberta.ca/>
University of Alberta, Canada

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On 10 August 2016 at 00:48, <jacob at fabularasa.dk> wrote:

> Dear list,
>
> I recently came upon a series of Indian snakes and ladders (gyān caupaṛ)
> charts in a private collection in Germany. I am puzzled by the fact that
> some of them appear to show Jaina tīrthaṅkaras painted with ūrdhvatilaka
> marks (which, to my knowledge, are not connected with Jainism).
>
> The attached example is colophoned as being from "Bhāvāpurī Pālīthānā"
> (allegedly a Jaina dharamshala near Palitana, Gujarat) and apparently shows
> the tīrthaṅkara Neminātha with an ūrdhvatilaka mark on his forehead. To add
> to my confusion, the inscriptions on the chart clearly indicate a Vaiṣṇava
> orientation.
>
> According to the buyer's source, the game used to be played by Brahmin
> pujaris working in or around Jaina temple grounds. While there is some
> possibility that the game chart is a fake produced solely for the antiques
> market, I would be very interested if anybody could enlighten me as to what
> might be going on here.
>
> Kind regards,
> Jacob
>
> Jacob Schmidt-Madsen
> PhD Fellow (Indology)
> Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies
> University of Copenhagen
> Denmark
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