Illustrated leaf from the Kalpa Sutra, depicting the first of the fourteen dreams of Rani Trisala, Prakrit manuscript on paper, lines of black devanagri, each side with an illustration in gouache heightened with gold, recto showing Rani Trisala reclining attended by a handmaiden, verso showing her first dream of three elephants, mounted, Jain West India, 16th century, (lacking at one corner, very small holes and slight staining from corrosive green in illustrations) - 4¾ x 12¼in. (12.1 x 31.2cm.)

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Illustrated leaf from the Kalpa Sutra, depicting the first of the fourteen dreams of Rani Trisala, Prakrit manuscript on paper, lines of black devanagri, each side with an illustration in gouache heightened with gold, recto showing Rani Trisala reclining attended by a handmaiden, verso showing her first dream of three elephants, mounted, Jain West India, 16th century, (lacking at one corner, very small holes and slight staining from corrosive green in illustrations) - 4¾ x 12¼in. (12.1 x 31.2cm.)
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For leaves from similar manuscripts see: Brown: Miniature Paintings of the Jain Kalpa Sutra, Oriental Studies No.2, Freer Gallery of Art 1934, pp.3, 12-13, figs 5-7 and Sam Fogg: India and the Himalayas, Cat.17, London 1996, pp.93-5, 96-7, nos 97-99, 101-2.

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