Celestial Performers: Folios from a Kalpasutra Manuscript, ca. 1490, India (Gujarat), Ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper, Overall: 4 1/2 x 11 1/2 in. (11.4 x 29.2 cm), Paintings, In Jain cosmology, Shakra's heaven is a blissful place where the jinas reside for eternity. It is populated by celestial dancers, seen here as beautiful maidens sensuously poised in the text margins. On the lower folio a male dancer accompanies the female dancers
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Celestial Performers, Folios, Kalpasutra Manuscript, ca, 1490, India, Gujarat, Ink, opaque watercolor, gold, paper, Overall, 4 1/2 x 11 1/2, 11.4 29.2 cm, Paintings, Jain, cosmology, Shakra, heaven, blissful place, jinas reside, eternity, populated, celestial dancers, beautiful maidens, sensuously, poised, text margins, lower folio, male dancer, accompanies, female
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