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Folio 20 from a Gandavyuha-sutra (Scripture of the Supreme Array): Sudhana and a parrot (recto); Text (verso)

1000–1100s
gum tempera and ink on palm leaf

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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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