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Text, Folio 4 (verso), from a Manuscript of the Perfection of Wisdom in Eight Thousand Lines (Ashtasahasrika Prajnaparamita-sutra)
Sunday, September 14, 1119 (year 239 of the Newar Samvat in the month of Ashvina)
- Medium
- gum tempera and ink on palm leaves
- Classification
- Painting
- Dimensions
- Leaf: 5.4 x 56.2 cm (2 1/8 x 22 1/8 in.)
- Culture
- Eastern India, Bihar, Vikramashila Monastery. Painting: Nepal, Kathmandu
- 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
This manuscript was clearly numbered in Nepal, evidenced by the numerals found on the versos.
