# Celestial Dancers, folio 5 (recto), from Brahman Rishabhadatta's speech, from a Kalpa-sutra

- Date: c. 1475–1500
- Medium: gum tempera and gold on paper
- Classification: Painting
- Dimensions: Overall: 11.5 x 29.3 cm (4 1/2 x 11 9/16 in.)
- Culture: Western India, Gujarat
- Credit line: Gift in memory of Herbert F. Leisy
- Museum: [Cleveland Museum of Art](https://clevelandart.org/art/1979.23.a)
- Rights: [Public domain (CC0)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/cma/1979.23.a/1979.23.a_web.jpg
- Who can see it: Tweens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

Manuscripts of the Kalpa-sutra are sacred embodiments of Jain doctrine. For this reason, they are worthy of beautification, adornment, and celebration by the inhabitants of heaven, such as the celestial dancers under cusped arches on this page.

The commissioning of a manuscript is believed to cleanse donors of the karmic effects of past wrongdoing. Wealthy donors gained prestige in the community with the costly production of a sacred manuscript.