Kalaka Becomes a Jain Monk; Kalaka Abducts the Nun, Two Leaves from a Dispersed Jain Manuscript of the Kalakacharya-katha
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Indian. Kalaka Becomes a Jain Monk; Kalaka Abducts the Nun, Two Leaves from a Dispersed Jain Manuscript of the Kalakacharya-katha, ca. 1465. Opaque watercolor and gold on paper, sheet: 4 3/8 x 10 1/2 in. (11.1 x 26.7 cm) image, verso: 4 1/4 x 2 3/4 in. (10.8 x 7.0 cm). Brooklyn Museum, A. Augustus Healy Fund, 36.236.1a-b. (Photo: Brooklyn Museum)
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Title
Kalaka Becomes a Jain Monk; Kalaka Abducts the Nun, Two Leaves from a Dispersed Jain Manuscript of the Kalakacharya-katha
Date
ca. 1465
Geography
Place made: Uttar Pradesh, India
Medium
Opaque watercolor and gold on paper
Classification
Dimensions
sheet: 4 3/8 x 10 1/2 in. (11.1 x 26.7 cm) image, verso: 4 1/4 x 2 3/4 in. (10.8 x 7.0 cm)
Inscriptions
Inscriptions 36.236.1 - Recto, In Cartouche in lower right margin: In gold, in Lewanagari script [catalogue: Devanagari script]: 89 (number)
Credit Line
A. Augustus Healy Fund
Accession Number
36.236.1a-b
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