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accession number:	1938.301.189.a
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Four bodhisattvas and two attendants flanking Vajrasattva, bottom cover, from a Manuscript of the Perfection of Wisdom in Eight Thousand Lines (Ashtasahasrika Prajnaparamita-sutra), Sunday, September 14, 1119 (year 239 of the Newar Samvat in the month of Ashvina). Eastern India, Bihar, Vikramashila Monastery. Painting: Nepal, Kathmandu. Gum tempera, paper, and colors on wood; overall: 6.5 x 57 x 1.5 cm (2 9/16 x 22 7/16 x 9/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1938.301.189.a

title:				Four bodhisattvas and two attendants flanking Vajrasattva, bottom cover, from a Manuscript of the Perfection of Wisdom in Eight Thousand Lines (Ashtasahasrika Prajnaparamita-sutra)
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creation date:			Sunday, September 14, 1119 (year 239 of the Newar Samvat in the month of Ashvina)
creation date earliest:		1119
creation date latest:		1119
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creditline:			Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
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culture:	Eastern India, Bihar, Vikramashila Monastery. Painting: Nepal, Kathmandu
technique:	Gum tempera, paper, and colors on wood
department:	Indian and Southeast Asian Art
collection:	Nepalese Art
type:		Painting
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measurements: Overall: 6.5 x 57 x 1.5 cm (2 9/16 x 22 7/16 x 9/16 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

* {'description': '<em>Buddhist Art. Detroit Institute of Arts, Twenty-Fourth Loan Exhibition, October, 1942</em>. Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI (October 1942).', 'opening_date': '1942-10-01T00:00:00'}

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PROVENANCE

	(Heeramaneck Galleries, New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
	date: ?–1938
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: 1938–
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	O’Mara, Reed. “‘On Golden Tablets’: The Cleveland Museum of Art’s Aṣṭasāhasrikā Prajñāpāramitā Manuscript as a Self-Referential Icon.” <em>Religions </em>11, no. 274 (2020): 1-19.
	page number: 	Reproduced: Figures 13, 14, and 15, p. 10 and 14.
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	Pal, Pratapaditya. <em>The Arts of Nepal, Part II: Painting.</em> Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1978.
	page number: 	Mentioned: p. 32, reproduced: fig. 11.
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	Hollis, Howard. "A Nepalese Manuscript." <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 26, no. 3 (March 1939): 31-33
	page number: 	Reproduced: p.30; Mentioned: p. 32
	url:		https://www.jstor.org/stable/25137997

	Lee, Sherman E. <em>Buddhist Art. Detroit Institute of Arts, Twenty-Fourth Loan Exhibition, October, 1942</em>. Detroit: Detroit Institute of Arts, 1942.
	page number: 	Mentioned: cat. no. 24, p. 24; Reproduced: cat. no. 24, p. 47
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook.</em> Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958.
	page number: 	Mentioned: cat. no. 754
	url:		https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n136

	Marcus, Margaret F. “Sculptures from Bihar and Bengal.” <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em>, vol. 54, no. 8, 1967, pp. 240–262.
	page number: 	Mentioned: p. 253, fig. 11; Reproduced: p. 252
	url:		www.jstor.org/stable/25152173

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