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On the Stamp
A bronze figure of Rishabhanatha standing on a long stand, with a smaller seated figure at the left end, on a dark ground, with the words “Baroda Museum, Vadodara” in Hindi and English, on an ₹11 stamp.
Bronze Rishabhanatha
India Post issued two stamps on 20 December 1994 for the centenary of the Baroda Museum, ₹6 and ₹11, printed side by side so that together they show one bronze on its stand. The figure on this one is Rishabhanatha, the first tirthankara of Jainism, in a bronze dated to the sixth century AD. Some catalogues call it a statue of the Buddha, which it is not. The museum was built in 1894, under the Gaekwads of Baroda, and modelled on the Victoria and Albert Museum and the Science Museum in London. Its companion stamp shows the other end of the stand. India Post’s brochure for this issue is not online, so this text draws on Wikipedia and on the stamp itself.
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