id: 539855 accession number: 1932.119.60.b share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1932.119.60.b updated: 2023-08-24 01:53:03.846000 The Lion's Cave with Sthulabhadra and His Sisters, Folio 60 (verso), from a Kalpa-sutra, c. 1450. 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 1932.119.60.b title: The Lion's Cave with Sthulabhadra and His Sisters, Folio 60 (verso), from a Kalpa-sutra title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: c. 1450 creation date earliest: 1445 creation date latest: 1455 current location: creditline: Edward L. Whittemore Fund copyright: --- culture: Western India, Gujarat technique: Gum tempera, ink, and gold on paper department: Indian and Southeast Asian Art collection: Indian Art type: Painting find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS --- measurements: Overall: 12.5 x 25.7 cm (4 15/16 x 10 1/8 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: [[beginning with line 1]] ttehiṁto | ittha ṇaṁ godāse nāmaṁ gaṇe niggae | tassa ṇaṁ imāu cattāri [line 2] sāhāu | evam=āhijjaṁti || taṁ jahā Tāmalittiā | Koḍīvarisiā [line 3] Poṁḍavaddhaṇiā | Dāsīkhabbaḍiā | therassa| |ṇaṁ ajja-Saṁbhūivija- [line 4] yassa | māḍhara-saguttassa | ime ḍuvālasa therā | aṁtevāsī || [line 5] ahāvaccā abhinnāyā hutthā || taṁ jahā | Naṁdaṇabhadde [line 6] Uvanaṁde [note 1] | taha Tīsabhadda Jasabhadde | there a Sumiṇabhadde 7? [line 7] Gaṇibhadde Punnabhadde a || 1 there a Thūlabhadde | Ujjumaī [note 2] Jaṁbu nā- [line 8] madhijje a | there a Dīhabhadde | there taha Paṁḍubhadde a || 2 therassa ṇaṁ | [line 9] ajja-Saṁbhūivijayassa | māḍhara-saguttassa | imāu satta aṁtevāsi translation: remark: inscription: [[upper right]] sīha guphā translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * Main Gallery Rotation (Gallery 242B). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (April 6–November 7, 2016). --- PROVENANCE (Heeramaneck Galleries, New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) date: ?–1932 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1932– footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: The three red dots in the margins and the center occur only on the reverse side of the page; the obverse side has only one red dot in the center. digital description: This manuscript is open to a page with a painting that depicts the story of a Jain monk who transformed himself into a composite beast when his sisters, two nuns, came to visit him. Terrified, the nuns ran to a senior monk, at the lower left, who admonished their brother for his overly prideful display of power. Remarkably, this story is not told in the text itself, which contains only their names among a list of prominent Jain teachers. The painting would remind a reader of the story that is found in many commentaries to the text. wall description: In the upper register two Jain nuns visit their brother, a monk named Sthulabhadra, who reached such a high level in his practice of yoga and meditation that he could perform miracles of transformation. He wanted to show his sisters how accomplished he had become, so he transformed himself into a lion with an elephant head. The sisters were terrified and ran to a senior monk named Bhadrabahu, shown at the lower left, who disciplined Sthulabhadra for his inappropriate, prideful display of his powers. Bhadrabahu sits in a cave, since the scene takes place during the monsoon season, when mendicant nuns and monks cease their wanderings and take shelter from the rain. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1932.119.60.b/1932.119.60.b_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1932.119.60.b/1932.119.60.b_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1932.119.60.b/1932.119.60.b_full.tif