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Transfer of the embryo, folio 13 from a Kalpa-sutra (recto)

1465

Northern India, Uttar Pradesh, Jaunpur

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Medium
Gum tempera, ink, and gold on paper
Measurements
Overall: 11.7 x 29.5 cm (4 5/8 x 11 5/8 in.)
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On Loan from the Catherine and Ralph Benkaim Collection 17.2014.a
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The paintings on this page illustrate the text describing the unusual circumstances of the early gestation of Mahavira. He had been conceived in the womb of a Brahman woman of the orthodox Hindu priest class, shown reclining twice on this page. In the upper register, a goat-headed divinity gently takes the golden embryo of Mahavira away in his raised hands. He had been sent by the king of the gods, who mandated that a teacher of the new religion be born of a queen. In the lower register, the divinity brings the queen’s embryo to the Brahman woman in exchange.

Transfer of the embryo, folio 13 from a Kalpa-sutra (recto)

1465

Northern India, Uttar Pradesh, Jaunpur

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