Shalibhadra Performing Austerities: Folio from a Shalibhadra Manuscript, ca. 1725

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Shalibhadra Performing Austerities: Folio from a Shalibhadra Manuscript, ca. 1725, India (Gujarat), Ink and opaque watercolor on paper, Image: 7 1/8 × 4 5/8 in. ( × cm), Paintings, In the upper register, the Jain Shalibhadra, born to great wealth, and his wife present a manuscript to two Jain nuns (or perhaps “widows” of renunciants) seated beneath a decorated tree that has leafy branches in the form of creepers found in Malwa paintings

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Size: 3197px × 5760px
Photo credit: © Artokoloro / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
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