Devananda's Fourteen Auspicious Dreams Foretelling the Birth of Mahavi

A folio from a Jain Kalpasutra manuscript: on the right, a woman reclines on a bed under a canopy while attendants and small animals appear in registers above. Red and blue panels of script fill the left, framed by ornate gold and blue borders.

Look closer: Small animals and figures in the upper register above the bed scene.

Artist

Master of the Jaunpur Kalpasutra

Date

ca. 1465

Medium

Opaque watercolor on paper

Source

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Size

3811 × 1526 px

Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Purchase, Cynthia Hazen Polsky Gift, 1992