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"tombstone": "Two nuns teaching lay women, colophon page of folio 167 (recto) from a Kalpa-sutra and Story of Kalakacharya, 1278. Western India, Gujarat, Palanpur (Prahladanapura). Gum tempera and ink on palm leaf; overall: 5.4 x 32.1 cm (2 1/8 x 12 5/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund, 1971.126.a",
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"title": "Two nuns teaching lay women, colophon page of folio 167 (recto) from a Kalpa-sutra and Story of Kalakacharya",
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{
"inscription": "iti \u015br\u012b|k\u0101lik\u0101c\u0101rya-kath\u0101naka sam\u0101pta || CHA || d\u0101t\u0101ni|tr\u012b\u1e47icait\u0101ni spa\u1e63\u1e6da\u1e41 \u1e63a|\u1e63\u1e6dyadhid\u0101 |? nicai math\u0101na||kasya kathit\u0101 sa\u1e41khy\u0101 | sa\u1e41khy\u0101vat\u0101\u1e41 ma t\u0101 || 1 sa\u1e41\u00b0 1335 var\u1e63e \u0101\u1e63\u0101\u1e0dha\u015bu|di 11 gurau \u015br\u012b- prahl\u0101danapure | likhita\u1e41 || ma\u1e41gala\u1e41 mah\u0101\u015br\u012b\u1e25 || CHA ||",
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"inscription_remark": "This page contains a colophon stating that the manuscript of the Kalakacharya-katha was written in Prahladanpur, which is modern-day Palanpur in Gujarat, on the 11th day of the month of Ashadha in the year 1335 of the Vikrama Era, which is equivalent to 1278.",
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"inscription": "[[Left painting, left caption]] Pra\u1e25 Matisu\u1e43dari\u1e25 (?)",
"inscription_translation": null,
"inscription_remark": "This caption identifies the name of the smaller figure in the painting.",
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"inscription": "[[Left painting, right caption]] \u015ar\u012b Jayasu\u1e43dari (?) Mahattar\u0101",
"inscription_translation": "The Female Leader, Shri Jayasundari (?) or Jayasund\u012bra",
"inscription_remark": "This caption gives the name and rank of the larger nun in the painting.",
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{
"inscription": "[[Right painting, left caption]] (indistinct)",
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"inscription_remark": "Caption identifies the name of the figure in the painting.",
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{
"inscription": "[[Right painting, right caption]] Vahmahasala (?) Devi",
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"inscription_remark": "Caption identifies the name of the figure in the painting.",
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"description": "The Peaceful Conquerors: Jain Art from India. New Orleans Museum of Art (June 29-September 17, 1995); Victoria and Albert Museum (November 22, 1995-February 18, 1996).",
"opening_date": "1995-06-29T00:00:00"
},
{
"description": "Indian Gallery 242 Rotation \u2013 April-November 2018. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (April 2-November 18, 2018).",
"opening_date": "2018-04-02T00:00:00"
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"description": "Text and Image in Southern Asia\u200b (Indian Painting and Himalayan rotation). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (August 26, 2022-March 5, 2023).",
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"description": "Sanghavina Padano Bhandar, Patan, India",
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"description": "(Sander L. Feldman, Washington, DC, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)",
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"date": "?\u20131971",
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"did_you_know": "Small captions give the names of the figures; the larger nun is identified as the female leader (mahattar\u0101).",
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"description": "Wearing white billowing monastic robes, the two nuns contrast with the beautifully adorned laywomen, who wear elaborately patterned textiles and jewelry. Jains commissioned illuminated manuscripts as a way to accrue religious merit, and they would have images of themselves at prayer inserted into the image cycles like this as signs of their patronage.",
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"citation": "Pal, Pratapaditya, with contributions by Shridhar Andhare and others. The Peaceful Liberators: Jain Art from India. New York: Thames & Hudson, 1994.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: cat. no. 80, p. 93, 200-201.",
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"citation": "Brown, W. Norman. The Story of Ka\u0304laka: Texts, History, Legends, and Miniature Paintings of the S\u0301veta\u0304mbara Jain Hagiographical Work, the Ka\u0304laka\u0304ca\u0304ryakatha\u0304 (with 15 Plates). Washington, DC: Lord Baltimore Press, 1933.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: p. 120",
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"citation": "Nawab, Sarabhai Manilal. Jain Paintings: Paintings on Palm-Leaves and Wooden Bookcovers Only. vol. I. Ahmedabad: Messrs Sarabhai Manilal Nawab, 1980.",
"page_number": "p. 20, see especially note 19, figs. 71 and 72",
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},
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"citation": "Leach, Linda York. Indian Miniature Paintings and Drawings. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art in cooperation with Indiana University Press, 1986.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: p. 7, cat. no. 1vii.",
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"citation": "\"March at the CMA.\u201d Cleveland Art: Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine vol. 63, no. 1 (2023): 24.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: P. 24.",
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