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March 1984
R.E. Lewis Inc
San Rafael
$25 + $25
Indian
Jain Kalpasutra (leaf, folio) manuscript ink + color on paper -each leaf, 7 lines of text
Western India - early 16th C. to the page in prakit.
2 leaves - each from a separate manuscript.
4 3/8" x 11 3/4" - Gold medallions with red + blue penwork - similar (15th C) - gold
borders (1520)
4 5/8" x 10 1/16" - Red medallions with red borders.
(1512) copied in the Jaina Nagar's script.
with printing #175 horizontal or pothi format.
Smithzonian Institution - Frea Gallery. ND 3385
Miniature Printings of the Jaina Kalpsutra. K3 B7
W. Norman Brown 1934. f (Art Library)
See "Maggs Bulletin" No. 40 #105+6 oCT' 86. Asia Art - Smithsonian Summer 1988.
Devanagarin script or "town script"
-the script mainly used for Sanskrit.
reads from left to right. Phonologically based
There are a number of Jain scriptures called Sutres, of which
the most important is the Kalpasutra, containing the life +
teachings of Mahavira. Bedun in the East the Jain
movement spread to the South + West is how strongest
in Gajarat. It was in the 9th C under King Amaghauarsa
(815-879) that Jain thought + activity reached its highest peak.
The best known Jain festival is Pajjusama in August.

Both Hinduism + Buddhism originated on the Indian subcontinent.
From this region these religions spread throughout Asia. The
3rd indigenous Indian religion, Janism, never expanded beyond
the subcontinent.
Sanskrit is the elder sister in the indo Germanic group of
languages + unlike the other has brought down from
antiquity a wealth of literary documents. Today of course, it
is purely the written language of preists + scholars.

Kalpa Sutra - 101 leaves, 18 minatures, 7 lines, 16th C
(The Sacred Aphorisms) Western India with 1425