The Metropolitan Museum of Art's own collection record for "Mahavira Preaching to Monks and Nuns: Folio from a Kalpasutra Manuscript," a manuscript page from India, Gujarat, dated 1461 (Samvat 1519), in ink, opaque watercolor and gold on paper. The record gives the accession number 18.104.8, dimensions of 4 3/8 by 10 1/8 inches (11.1 by 25.7 cm), the credit line Rogers Fund, 1918, the department as Asian Art and the classification as Paintings.
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The holding museum's own catalogue record for the accessioned object, the strongest available record for its culture, date, medium, dimensions and accession number, its own title directly naming Mahavira as the figure shown, independently corroborated by the English Wikipedia article on the Kalpa Sutra confirming the manuscript tradition and its mid-15th-century Gujarat illustration practice. Citation
PublisherMetropolitan Museum of Art
URLhttps://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/37963
Source TypeMuseum
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This source names Gujarat directly: "a manuscript page from India, Gujarat, dated 1461 (Samvat 1519), in ink, opaque watercolor and gold on paper."
Source Mahavira Preaching to Monks and Nuns: Folio from a Kalpasutra Manuscript (Metropolitan Museum of Art)
Claims Backed By This Source (16 claims)
This source backs 16 claims across the atlas. As facts: 10 well-attested. As cited relationships: 5 holds. Plus 1 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.
Disposition By Topic
- Sacred Art & Iconography, 10 claims: 5 well-attested, 4 holds, 1 general references.
- Sources, 6 claims: 5 well-attested, 1 holds.
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