Jain Miniature Paintings from Western India c13.164

c13.164

87. Indra giving order to Hariṇaigemesha. *Kalpasūtra* manuscript, Hemachandrāchārya Jñāna Bhaṇḍār, Pāṭan. Red background with a part of the sky depicted in ultramarine; Indra is seated on a beautifully worked *simhāsana*, facing to the right, in his upper right hand he holds a goad and in the left, a noose, in the lower right hand, a naked sword, and in the left, a *bijorā* fruit; he wears a *mukuṭa*, a light scarf and a blue *dhotī* worked with the geese pattern, and ornaments. On the right stands Hariṇaigameṣa with folded hands.