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        "tombstone": "Birth of Mahavira, folio 40 (verso) from a Kalpa-sutra, c. 1400. Western India, Gujarat. Gum tempera, ink, and gold on paper; overall: 9.4 x 28.4 cm (3 11/16 x 11 3/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Dr. Norman Zaworski, 1976.27.b",
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        "title": "Birth of Mahavira, folio 40 (verso) from a Kalpa-sutra",
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                    "id": 302374,
                    "title": "Year in Review, 1976",
                    "description": "<i>Year in Review, 1976</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 1-March 6, 1977).",
                    "opening_date": "1977-02-01T05:00:00"
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                {
                    "id": 449919,
                    "title": "Text and Image in Southern Asia",
                    "description": "<i>Text and Image in Southern Asia</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (August 26, 2022-March 5, 2023).",
                    "opening_date": "2022-08-26T04:00:00"
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                    "description": "<em>Main Asian Rotation (Gallery 245).</em> The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (January 5-April 27, 2015).",
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        "did_you_know": "Under the swing bed is a box decorated with two geese, filled with paan (betel nut, lime, and spices wrapped in betel leaf).",
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        "description": "A queen and her golden newborn lie on a swing, gazing at one another as two attendants hold fly whisks to honor them. The infant is Mahavira, founder of the Jain religion, who lived during the 500s BC in northern India.<br><br>Though palm leaf was preferred for sacred texts, Jain communities transitioned to the more readily available material of paper during the 1300s. A hole in the central red dot was made for a binding string.<br><br>The margin notes beginning with the \u201c=\u201d sign are comments explaining the text.",
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                "citation": "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": "Reproduced and mentioned: cat. no. 2, pp. 8-9.",
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        "alternate_titles": [
            "Rsabhanatha's Birth, folio 40 from a Kalpa-sutra manuscript",
            "Leaf from a Jain Manuscript: Kalpa-sutra: Text (recto)",
            "Birth of Mahavira, Folio 40 verso of a Kalpa-sutra"
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