Description
This painting, from later in a Sanskrit text on yoga and meditation, shows the transmission of the teaching. The senior monk on a throne, who may also be the text’s author, faces a disciple with a sacred book on a stand under a canopy between them. Below is a pious assembly of lay followers and nuns.
Provenance
(Sander L. Feldman, Washington, DC, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) (?–1971); The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (1971–)
Folio 22 from a Yoga-shastra of Hemachandra: Jain Monk with disciple and two laymen, two Nuns, and a laywoman (recto); Text (verso)
c. 1275
Accession Number
1971.129
Medium
Gum tempera and ink on palm leaf
Dimensions
Overall: 7.5 x 31.1 cm (2 15/16 x 12 1/4 in.)
Classification
Painting
Credit Line
Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
