15th-C Indian Jain Kalpasutra Manuscript Illustration Miniature Painting Gujarat

Description

ITEM:  Kalpasutra Illustrations
CREATOR:
Bhadrabahu
DETAILS: Two leaves of illustrations to a Kalpasutra manuscript, each with miniature painting on one side and text on both sides.
PERIOD:
Estimated 15th century
ORIGIN: Western India (likely Gujarat)
MATERIAL: Ink on paper
CONDITION: Somewhat tattered condition with holes and tears, losses, discoloration, age.
DIMENSIONS: Each 4 1/2" by 10 3/4"
BACKGROUND:
Kalpasutra is an earliest religious Jain text that deals with the life stories of the last two Jain Tirthankaras, Parshvanath and Mahavira. This is one of the most popular Jain texts to be illustrated and is still read aloud to the laity every year during the rainy season.
Kalpasutra contains detailed biographies with illustrations. The other two Tirthankaras Adinath and Neminath are mentioned in this book, with Adinath depicted in some of the pictures.
Kalpasutra was written by Bhadrabahu and written about one hundred a fifty years after Nirvana of Mahavira
.
In the eight day long festival of Paryushan by Jain monks Kalpasutra is read for the general Jain people.
PROVENANCE: From the estate of a serious collector
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