Cleveland Museum of Art
Shvetambara Jain Teacher Giving Instruction
Sahib Ram
- Date
- c. 1750–60
- Medium
- gum tempera and gold on paper
- Culture
- Northwestern India, Rajasthan, Rajput Kingdom of Jaipur
- Department
- Indian and Southeast Asian Art
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
A manuscript lies on a low table in front of the preacher, who holds one hand up in the gesture of discourse, and the other holds a cloth to shield his mouth from insects. The audience of laypeople includes men gathered near the front of the composition, and women in a group toward the back. The preacher and the white-clad figures behind him are Jain householder monks, permitted to grow hair and moustaches and to wear a colored shawl that indicates higher status. Householder monks in Rajasthan often served as scribes and maintained manuscript libraries. The monks seated next to the teacher place their whisk-brooms before them.
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