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Folio 1

Kalpasutra

second half of 15th century
Object PlaceGujarat, Western India
Medium/TechniqueInk, opaque watercolor and gold on paper
DimensionsEach page: 11 x 26 cm (4 5/16 x 10 1/4 in.)
Credit LineRoss-Coomaraswamy Collection
Accession number17.2278.1-107
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ClassificationsBooks and manuscripts
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InscriptionsText is in Prakrit. No colophon has been discovered. Most illustrations have two titles or headings, one in red ink, one in black, with nearly identical texts.
Provenance1913, purchased from the library of Puj Kripa Rishi, a Jaina priest, Patti, Panjab by Ananda Coomaraswamy (b. 1887 - d. 1947); 1917, sold by Ananda K. Coomaraswamy to Denman Waldo Ross (b. 1853 - d. 1935), Cambridge, MA; 1917, given by Denman Waldo Ross to the MFA. (Accession date: April 5, 1917)