Accession number
MS M.1035.1
Object title
Conversion of bricks to gold by Kālaka, a folio from a Kālakācāryakathānaka manuscript (MS M.1035.1).
Display Date
ca. 1475.
Created
Gujarat, India, ca. 1475.
Credit line
Gift of Paul F. Walter, 1981.
Description
1 single leaf (9 lines) : paper, ill. ; 110 x 263 mm
Provenance
Paul F. Walter.
Notes
Ms. miniature; written and illuminated in Gujarat, ca. 1475.
"Kālakācāryakathānaka is a non-canonical Jain text usually added to the Kalpasūtra that recounts the story of a Jain monk-teacher named Kālaka"--Cf. Schmitz.
Pierpont Morgan MS M.1035.2 is from the same manuscript.
Miniature measures 110 x 76 mm.
"Kālakācāryakathānaka is a non-canonical Jain text usually added to the Kalpasūtra that recounts the story of a Jain monk-teacher named Kālaka"--Cf. Schmitz.
Pierpont Morgan MS M.1035.2 is from the same manuscript.
Miniature measures 110 x 76 mm.
Script
nāgarī
Language
Prakrit
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