Posted on: 27 September 2012

Digital Rare Book:
The Kalpa Sutra and Nava Tatva - Two works illustrative of the Jain religion and philosophy.
By John Stevenson
Published by Bernard Quaritch, London - 1848

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Image:
Mahavira Plucks Out His Hair
Folio from a Kalpasutra Manuscript
15th century
India (Gujarat)
Ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper

Source: The Metropolitan Museum of Art


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The preface proclaims that the "Jains are the only representatives in Hindustan of the adherents to the tenets of Buddhsim.." Ouch.