INDIA, GUJARAT OR RAJASTHAN, 19TH CENTURY

This cosmic diagram depicts the Jain universe, divided into adhai dvipa, or two and a half continents. Compare the current work with another nineteenth-century cosmic diagram of Adhaidvipa illustrated in P. Pal, The Peaceful Liberators: Jain Art from India, Los Angeles, 1995, p. 223, no. 98, and another sold at Sotheby’s New York, 20 March 2013, lot 299.