An inscribed copper alloy Jain shrine depicting Tirthankara Mahavira, India, Gujarat, dated Samvat 1521 (1464 CE) | 印度古吉拉特邦 印度曆1521年（西元1464年）銅耆那蒂爾丹嘉拉筏馱摩那坐像神龕

The plaque is cast in one depicting Mahāvira beneath a parasol, seated on a colonnaded pedestal flanked by seated and standing Jina and surrounded by registers of seated Jina. An engraved panel at the front depicts a stylised lion, the emblem of Jina Mahāvira. The back of the pedestal is inscribed in devanāgarī with the date Samvat 1521 (CE 1464). Compare the format with a copper alloy shrine depicting Parsvanatha surrounded by multiple Jina in the Norton Simon Foundation, see Pratapaditya Pal, The Peaceful Liberators: Jain Art from India, Thames and Husdon, 1994, cat. 37. The multiple images of Jina reflect the twenty-four Tirthankara of the Past, the twenty-four of the Present, and the twenty-four of the Future. Dr. Pal notes that the concept of such shrines with multiple images differs little to the merit gained in the depiction of myriad Buddhas and linga in Buddhist and Shaiva contexts, ibid. p. 150.