Dimensions: Height 18,4 cm ; Wide 15 cm ; Depth 7,5 cm

Weight: 1949 grams

Tirthankara, in Jainism, a saviour who has succeeded in crossing over life’s stream of rebirths and has made a path for others to follow.

Seated cross-legged on a throne in the posture of meditation, dhyanamudra. Carved out of stone highly polished, the cold surfaces serving to emphasize the frozen detachment from life.

Since the Tirthankara is a perfect being, there is little to distinguish one from another, except for symbolic colours or emblems.

Images of the Tirthankara are not worshiped as personal gods capable of giving blessings or interfering with human events.

Rather, Jain believers pay them homage as representatives of great beings in the hope that they may be filled with a sense of renunciation and the highest virtues and thus encouraged along the path toward their final liberation.