Cleveland Museum of Art
Text, folio 4 (recto), from a Manuscript of the Perfection of Wisdom in Eight Thousand Lines (Ashtasahasrika Prajnaparamita-sutra)
- Date
- Sunday, September 14, 1119 (year 239 of the Newar Samvat in the month of Ashvina)
- Medium
- Gum tempera and ink on palm leaf
- Culture
- Eastern India, Bihar, Vikramashila Monastery. Painting: Nepal, Kathmandu
- Department
- Indian and Southeast Asian Art
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
This manuscript, consisting of 188 double-sided folios, was calligraphed by a scribe at a monastery in northeastern India, commissioned by a monk from Nepal. The text is written using lamp black ink made from mixing carbon, gum Arabic, and water .
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