Brahmanshanti Yaksha: Folio (verso), from a Kalpa-sutra and Story of Kalaka of Devachandra
book authored by Devachandra (Indian)
1279
- Medium
- gum tempera and ink on palm leaf
- Classification
- Painting
- Dimensions
- Overall: 5.1 x 34.8 cm (2 x 13 11/16 in.)
- Culture
- Western India, Gujarat, 13th century
- 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
- Teens profiles and older: its museum says too little about what it shows to place it for younger viewers. How works are placed
View at the Cleveland Museum of Art
About this work
In Jainism, yakshas communicate between humans and beings in the eternal realm of liberation.
