Celestial Performers: Folios from a Kalpasutra Manuscript, ca. 1490, India (Gujarat), Ink and opaque watercolor 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. These scenes are echoed in the textual descriptions of the Kalpasutra celebrating Mahavira
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Celestial Performers, Folios, Kalpasutra Manuscript, ca, 1490, India, Gujarat, Ink, opaque watercolor, 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, scenes, echoed, textual descriptions, celebrating, Mahavira
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