Everything about Kalpasutra Jain totally explained
Kalpasutra is a
Jain ancient text containing the biographies of the last two
Jain Tirthankaras,
Parshvanath and
Mahavira. It contains detailed life histories with illustrations.
Adinath (or RishabhDev) and
Neminath are two other Tirthankaras briefly mentioned in the text, with Adinath depicted in some of the illustrations.
The book is considered to be written by
Bhadrabahu I, and it's considered written about 150 years after Nirvana of Mahavira.
Importance of the text
The book is read and illustrated in an eight day long festival of
Paryushan by Jain monks for general people.
Origin of Illustrations
The Kalpasutra art has its origin acclaimedly in the 5th century. It is claimed that the Kalpasutras, though on a different medium, were part of the same sectarian art tradition as the ancient murals of
Ajanta, Bagh and other monasteries. However, the earliest known Kalpasutras don't go beyond the 10th century and the number from the period from the 10th to 13th centuries is very small. The greater bulk of Kalpasutra paintings emerges from 14th to mid-16th centuries. These Kalpasutras are mostly from Western India, Gujarat,
Rajasthan and the western region of Malwa. The
Mandu (
Malwa, now in
Madhya Pradesh) Kalpasutras of 1439 and some of their contemporary renderings from
Gujarat and western Rajasthan,
Mewar and
Marwar, are all masterpieces of Indian miniature art.
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