Cleveland Museum of Art
Folio 20 from a Gandavyuha-sutra (Scripture of the Supreme Array): Sudhana and a parrot (recto); Text (verso)
- Date
- 1000–1100s
- Medium
- gum tempera and ink on palm leaf
- Culture
- Nepal
- Department
- Indian and Southeast Asian Art
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
A young male figure, probably the pilgrim Sudhana, sits on a cushion with a bolster and interacts with a parrot, perched on the trunk of a tree. Sudhana's gesture indicates that the bird should not be afraid. Most pages from this dispersed 355-folio manuscript have a single painting only on the recto side. The pages would have been bound into the book by strings running through the two holes in the center of the pages.
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