Two folios from the ""Kalpasutra"" illustrating King Siddhartha at Court and the Renunciation of Mahavira

ca. 1450

29.5 cm 11.4 cm

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These two illustrated folios are from a manuscript of the "Kalpasutra," one of the most important canonical texts of the Shvetambara Jain tradition. Part of the text relates the life stories of the twenty-four Jinas, the omniscient, spiritually liberated teachers revered by Ja...

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John and Berthe Ford, Baltimore; given to Walters Art Museum, 2002.
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