Folio 22 from a Yoga-shastra of Hemachandra: Jain Monk with disciple and two laymen, two Nuns, and a laywoman (recto); Text (verso)

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FROM THE CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART’S CATALOG

This painting, from later in a Sanskrit text on yoga and meditation, shows the transmission of the teaching. The senior monk on a throne, who may also be the text’s author, faces a disciple with a sacred book on a stand under a canopy between them. Below is a pious assembly of lay followers and nuns.

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