id:			145830
accession number:	1971.126.a
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1971.126.a
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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

title:				Two nuns teaching lay women, colophon page of folio 167 (recto) from a Kalpa-sutra and Story of Kalakacharya
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creation date:			1278
creation date earliest:		1278
creation date latest:		1278
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creditline:			Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
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culture:	Western India, Gujarat, Palanpur (Prahladanapura)
technique:	Gum tempera and ink on palm leaf
department:	Indian and Southeast Asian Art
collection:	Indian Art
type:		Painting
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CREATORS

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measurements: Overall: 5.4 x 32.1 cm (2 1/8 x 12 5/8 in.)
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inscriptions:

	inscription:	iti śrī|kālikācārya-kathānaka samāpta || CHA || dātāni|trīṇicaitāni spaṣṭaṁ ṣa|ṣṭyadhidā |? nicai mathāna||kasya kathitā saṁkhyā | saṁkhyāvatāṁ ma tā || 1 saṁ° 1335 varṣe āṣāḍhaśu|di 11 gurau śrī- prahlādanapure | likhitaṁ || maṁgalaṁ mahāśrīḥ || CHA ||
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	inscription:	[[Left painting, left caption]] Praḥ Matisuṃdariḥ (?)
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	inscription:	[[Left painting, right caption]] Śrī Jayasuṃdari (?) Mahattarā
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	inscription:	[[Right painting, left caption]] (indistinct)
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	inscription:	[[Right painting, right caption]] Vahmahasala (?) Devi
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

* <em>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).</em>

* <em>Indian Gallery 242 Rotation – April-November 2018</em>. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (April 2-November 18, 2018).

* <em>Text and Image in Southern Asia​ (Indian Painting and Himalayan rotation)</em>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (August 26, 2022-March 5, 2023).

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PROVENANCE

	Sanghavina Padano Bhandar, Patan, India
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	(Sander L. Feldman, Washington, DC, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
	date: ?–1971
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: 1971–
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fun fact:
Small captions give the names of the figures; the larger nun is identified as the female leader (<em>mahattarā</em>).

digital 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.

wall description:
This page is from the end of a manuscript, which contains two texts often paired together, the Kalpa-sutra and Story of Kalakacharya. It tells a story about a Jain teacher who used magic to overthrow an evil king. The laywomen who listen reverently to the nuns’ teaching may the donors who paid for the creation of the manuscript.
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	Pal, Pratapaditya, with contributions by Shridhar Andhare and others. <em>The Peaceful Liberators: Jain Art from India. </em>New York: Thames &amp; Hudson, 1994.
	page number: 	Reproduced: cat. no. 80, p. 93, 200-201.
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	Brown, W. Norman. <em>The Story of Kālaka: Texts, History, Legends, and Miniature Paintings of the Śvetāmbara Jain Hagiographical Work, the Kālakācāryakathā (with 15 Plates)</em>. Washington, DC: Lord Baltimore Press, 1933.
	page number: 	Mentioned: p. 120
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	Nawab, Sarabhai Manilal. <em>Jain Paintings: Paintings on Palm-Leaves and Wooden Bookcovers Only</em>. vol. I. Ahmedabad: Messrs Sarabhai Manilal Nawab, 1980.
	page number: 	p. 20, see especially note 19, figs. 71 and 72
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	Leach, Linda York.<em> Indian Miniature Paintings and Drawings</em>. 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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	"March at the CMA.” <em>Cleveland Art: Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine </em>vol. 63, no. 1 (2023): 24.
	page number: 	Reproduced: P. 24.
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