Posted on: 22 September 2014

Manuscript of 25 paintings bound in red covers illustrating either punishments of the sinful (19 folios) or the lives of Jain saints. This folio is divided into four equal parts, each depicting an episode in the life of a jina.
Descriptive text written in Devanagari frames each image along the upper and lower borders.

19th century
Marwar, India

© Trustees of the British Museum


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