Soma Ghosh
Librarian and Media Officer, Salar Jung Museum, Ministry of Culture, Govt.of India, Hyderabad, Telangana. Email: somaghosh1133@gmail.com
Volume 5, Number 1, 2021 I Full-Text PDF
Abstract
The article analyses a rare and interesting illustrated manuscript on paper from the 17th century at the Salar Jung Museum Library, the Jaina ‘Samgrahani Sutra’ with 27 one-sided illustrations and 11 illustrations on both sides of the paper. In its entirety, the loose leaves are 76 including the illustrated papers. The origin of the manuscript is from Gujarat, Western India.
Keywords: Samgrahani Sutra, Jaina illustrated manuscript, Jainism