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Folio 2, from a Kalpa-sutra and Story of Kalakacharya: Monk Holding a Flower (recto); text (verso)
1287
- Medium
- gum tempera and ink on palm leaf
- Classification
- Painting
- Dimensions
- Overall: 5.3 x 17.1 cm (2 1/16 x 6 3/4 in.)
- Culture
- Western India, Gujarat
- Museum
- Cleveland Museum of Art, Indian and Southeast Asian Art
- Credit line
- Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed
View at the Cleveland Museum of Art
About this work
The text describes the descent of Mahavira from heaven into the womb of the Brahman woman Devananda.
