The Cleveland Museum of Art
Collection Online as of December 15, 2025
Prince Shreyamsa dreams of the coming of Rishabha, from a Panchakalyanaka (Five Auspicious Events)
1670–80
26.7 x 42.5 cm (10 1/2 x 16 3/4 in.)
Jo Hershey Selden Fund 2021.12
Location: Not on view
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This painting is from the earliest known Jain series made in a Mughal-inspired style.Description
Dreams foretell important events in Indian literature. In this painting a prince lies half asleep and experiences eight visions, pictured above the reclining figure. At the right, the prince on the throne with the royal umbrella seeks help interpreting the dreams. They predicted the coming of Rishabha, the first Jina, who has been fasting for a full year. The prince then became the first person in the world to give proper alms, or pious offerings, to a Jina.This painting is from a group that is recognized as the first Jain manuscript made in the form of a pictorial series, rather than a handwritten manuscript.
- by the 1960s-?Private collection of an Indian physician, possibly Solon, OH, given to his partnerc. 1960s-2021Private collection, Cleveland, OH, consigned by her nieces and nephews to Neue Auction for saleFebruary 20, 2021(Neue Auctions, Beachwood, OH, February 20, 2021 sale "A Neue Year-Fine Art & Antiques," sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)2021-The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
- Text and Image in Southern Asia. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (August 26, 2022-March 5, 2023).
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