id:			113072
accession number:	1932.119.12.a
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1932.119.12.a
updated:		2023-08-23 19:34:21.931000

Transfer of the Embryo of Mahavira, Folio 12 (recto), from a Kalpa-sutra, c. 1475–1500. Western India, Gujarat. Gum tempera, ink, and gold on paper; overall: 12.5 x 25.7 cm (4 15/16 x 10 1/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Edward L. Whittemore Fund 1932.119.12.a

title:				Transfer of the Embryo of Mahavira, Folio 12 (recto), from a Kalpa-sutra
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creation date:			c. 1475–1500
creation date earliest:		1470
creation date latest:		1505
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creditline:			Edward L. Whittemore Fund
copyright:			

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culture:	Western India, Gujarat
technique:	Gum tempera, ink, and gold on paper
department:	Indian and Southeast Asian Art
collection:	Indian Art
type:		Painting
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catalogue raisonne: 

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measurements: Overall: 12.5 x 25.7 cm (4 15/16 x 10 1/8 in.)
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inscriptions:

	inscription:	[[upper right]] garbhāpahāra/garbhasaṃvaraṇa
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	remark:		

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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Paintings of Bikaner – Indian Gallery 242 Rotation
	opening date:   2019-11-07T05:00:00
	<i>Paintings of Bikaner – Indian Gallery 242 Rotation</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (November 7, 2019-April 5, 2020).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

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PROVENANCE

	(Heeramaneck Galleries, New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
	date: ?–1932
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: 1932–
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wall description:
The tiny captions written in Sanskrit to the right of the painting identify the subject of this scene: “abduction of the embryo” and “transfer of the embryo.” The embryo is the unborn founder of the Jain religion. <br><br>In this miraculous episode, a goat-headed divinity who presides over miscarriage and childbirth gently takes the embryo in his cupped hands away from the reclining Brahmin lady in the scene above. Below, he carries it to a queen, who will be the birth mother.
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IMAGES

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