Home›Sources›The Walters Art Museum, "Vessantara Jataka, Chapter 3 (The Gift): Vessantara Gives Away the Chariot," accession 35.282SourcesThe Walters Art Museum, "Vessantara Jataka, Chapter 3 (The Gift): Vessantara Gives Away the Chariot," accession 35.282sourceCitation FormatsGeneral ReferenceGeneral Reference Citation TextDivinity Atlas. "The Walters Art Museum, "Vessantara Jataka, Chapter 3 (The Gift): Vessantara Gives Away the Chariot," accession 35.282." Accessed August 30, 2026. https://www.divinityatlas.com/sources/vessantara-jataka-gift-of-the-chariot-walters-sources.Copy General ReferenceAPA StyleAPA Style Citation TextDivinity Atlas. (n.d.). The Walters Art Museum, "Vessantara Jataka, Chapter 3 (The Gift): Vessantara Gives Away the Chariot," accession 35.282. Retrieved August 30, 2026, from https://www.divinityatlas.com/sources/vessantara-jataka-gift-of-the-chariot-walters-sourcesCopy APA StyleBibTeXBibTeX Citation Text@misc{divinityatlas-the-walters-art-museum-vessantara-jataka, author = {Divinity Atlas}, title = {The Walters Art Museum, "Vessantara Jataka, Chapter 3 (The Gift): Vessantara Gives Away the Chariot," accession 35.282}, year = {2026}, url = {https://www.divinityatlas.com/sources/vessantara-jataka-gift-of-the-chariot-walters-sources}, note = {Accessed August 30, 2026} }Copy BibTeXA citation to The Walters Art Museum's own online collection catalogue record for this cloth painting, accession 35.282, part of the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation's Southeast Asian Art Collection gift of 2002, read directly. Its strength is a directly examined institutional catalogue record from the painting's custodian museum naming the medium, dimensions, geographic origin and period. Its limit is that the record itself is brief and does not supply extended narrative commentary; the surrounding account of the Vessantara Jataka and its place among the ten perfections draws on established Buddhist scholarship rather than the catalogue text alone.FactsClaims Backed By This Source (30 claims)Comments (0)Reader Challenges (0 open reader challenges)FactsCitationAuthorWell-attestedThe Walters Art Museum, catalogue entryPublisherWell-attestedThe Walters Art MuseumURLWell-attestedhttps://art.thewalters.org/object/35.282/Source TypeWell-attestedMuseumAssessmentReliability TierWell-attested1The custodian museum's own public collection catalogue page for this exact accession, directly examined.Claims Backed By This Source (30 claims)This source backs 30 claims across the atlas. As facts: 24 well-attested. As cited relationships: 3 holds. Plus 3 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.Disposition By TopicSacred Art & Iconography, 16 claims: 12 well-attested, 3 holds, 1 general references.Articles, 8 claims: 6 well-attested, 2 general references.Sources, 6 claims: 6 well-attested.Well-attested24ArticlesA Painting Made to Be RetoldThe Gift That Cost EverythingSacred Art & IconographyVessantara Jataka, Chapter 3 (The Gift): Vessantara Gives Away the Chariot (The Walters Art Museum)SourcesThe Walters Art Museum, "Vessantara Jataka, Chapter 3 (The Gift): Vessantara Gives Away the Chariot," accession 35.282Holds3Sacred Art & IconographyVessantara Jataka, Chapter 3 (The Gift): Vessantara Gives Away the Chariot (The Walters Art Museum)General References3ArticlesA Painting Made to Be RetoldThe Gift That Cost EverythingSacred Art & IconographyVessantara Jataka, Chapter 3 (The Gift): Vessantara Gives Away the Chariot (The Walters Art Museum)Comments (0)No comments yet. Be the first to share a thought.Sign in to join the discussion.Reader Challenges (0 open reader challenges)No disputes yet. Spotted an error or a better source? Open the first one.Sign in to dispute this or suggest a correction.View At A Past YearThe atlas records no dated fact of its own for this entry, so there is no other year to choose.Show This Year