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Bahubali / Vardhamana/Mahaveera

Bahubali / Vardhamana/Mahaveera
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Today, we can see Mahavira’s brand of extreme-asceticism and spiritual confidence embodied in the beautiful sculptural forms of Jain tradition, which represent the “ford makers” {Tirthankara, (Sanskrit: “Ford-maker”) also called Jina (“Victor”), in Jainism, a saviour who has succeeded in crossing over life's stream of rebirths and has made a path for others to follow.} and other mythical Jains. With space, powerful physiques and lustrous skin -- a luster, it is said, that comes with the renunciation of many foods -- these sculptures stand in an ethereal nakedness, which was once described by the German Indologist Heinrich Zimmer as “a strange but perfect aloofness, a nudity of chilling majesty.” So still are they in their rejection of earthly life that they often have climbing vines carved around their thighs. ~ Page 21
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