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Collection Online as of June 4, 2023

Text, Folio 8 (recto), from a Manuscript of the Perfection of Wisdom in Eight Thousand Lines (Ashtasahasrika Prajnaparamita-sutra)

Sunday, September 14, 1119 (year 239 of the Newar Samvat in the month of Ashvina)

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Eastern India, Bihar, Vikramashila Monastery. Painting: Nepal, Kathmandu

Ink on palm leaf

Leaf: 5.4 x 56.2 cm (2 1/8 x 22 1/8 in.)

Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1938.301.8.a

Location

237 Himalayan

Provenance
?–1938
(Heeramaneck Galleries, New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
1938–
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
Citations
The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958. Mentioned: cat. no. 754 archive.org
Source URL: https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1938.301.8.a