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Text describing the pregnancy of Queen Trishala, folio 40 (recto) from a Kalpa-sutra
c. 1400
- Medium
- gum tempera and ink on paper
- Classification
- Painting
- Dimensions
- Overall: 9.4 x 28.4 cm (3 11/16 x 11 3/16 in.)
- Culture
- Western India, Gujarat
- Museum
- Cleveland Museum of Art, Indian and Southeast Asian Art
- Credit line
- Gift of Dr. Norman Zaworski
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its subject is for older viewers (war, death, the Passion, drink or the like). How works are placed
View at the Cleveland Museum of Art
About this work
The text on this page describes Queen Trishala's joyous and peaceful pregnancy of 9 months, 7-and-a-half days. It goes on to say that Mahavira was born at midnight on the 13th day of the first month of summer, and all omens augured success.
