A History of Fine Art in India and Ceylon, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day c13.s9.3

c13.s9.3

These observations apply chiefly to separate images. The Jains, as Mr. Walhouse has observed, delight in making their images of all substances and sizes, but almost always invariable in attitude, whether that be seated or standing. Most of the images belong to the Digambara school or sect, and are nude. Small portable effigies of the saints are made of crystal, alabaster, soapstone, bloodstone, and various other materials; while the large ones are carved from whatever kind of stone happens to be locally available. The seated statues are always posed in the cross-legged *yogī* attitude of meditation, with, so far as I know, only a single exception at Gwālior. The standing ones are ordinarily nude square-shouldered figures facing front, with the arms hanging straight down by the sides.