A Wikipedia article on the Kalpa Sutra, a Jain canonical text containing the biography of Mahavira, of the twenty-four Tirthankaras generally, and of the lineage of mendicants who followed Mahavira, including his fourfold community of monks, nuns, laymen and laywomen organized under nine Ganas and eleven Ganadharas, chief among them Gautama Swami. The article records that the oldest surviving paper copies come from western India in the 14th century and that the text "was frequently illustrated with miniature painting" from the mid-15th century onward, with Gujarat established as a primary center of this manuscript-illustration tradition, and notes that the text is read aloud each year during the Svetambara community's Paryushana festival. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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A crowd-edited tertiary reference, used here to confirm the manuscript tradition and mid-15th-century Gujarat illustration practice this folio belongs to, independently corroborated by the Metropolitan Museum of Art's own catalogue record for this exact folio. Citation
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URLhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalpa_Sutra
Source Typeencyclopedia
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This source names Gujarat directly: "from the mid-15th century onward, with Gujarat established as a primary center of this manuscript-illustration tradition, and notes that the text is read aloud each year during the Svetambara..."
Source Kalpa Sutra (Wikipedia)
This source names Mahavira directly: "text containing the biography of Mahavira, of the twenty-four Tirthankaras generally, and of the lineage of mendicants who followed Mahavira, including his fourfold community of monks, nuns, laymen..."
Source Kalpa Sutra (Wikipedia)
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This source backs 10 claims across the atlas. As facts: 6 well-attested. As cited relationships: 3 holds. Plus 1 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.
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- Sources, 7 claims: 5 well-attested, 2 holds.
- Scriptures & Texts, 2 claims: 1 well-attested, 1 general references.
- Sacred Art & Iconography, 1 claims: 1 holds.
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