Cleveland Museum of Art
Kalpa-sutra manuscript with 24 illuminations
- Date
- c. 1475–1500
- Medium
- Gum tempera, ink, and gold on paper
- Culture
- Western India, Gujarat
- Department
- Indian and Southeast Asian Art
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
Though paper manuscripts would have been wrapped in cloth rather than bound with string, conservative manuscript producers located the place for the string's hole with a red dot. Dating back to at least the early centuries of the first millennium, the text is written in Sanskrit in an Indian script known as devanagari . The smaller text written in the margins is a commentary that discusses the meaning of the main text.
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