Devananda's Fourteen Auspicious Dreams Foretelling the Birth of Mahavira: Folio from a Kalpasutra Manuscript

Master of the Jaunpur Kalpasutra · ca. 1465

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Mushroom
40% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 6.8:1

Copper
24% of the image
Orange · text contrast 5.9:1

Terracotta
16% of the image
Red · text contrast 4.6:1

Sienna
8% of the image
Pink · text contrast 4.5:1

Slate blue
8% of the image
Purple · text contrast 5.8:1

Pearl grey
3% of the image
White & cream · text contrast 14.2:1

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Artist: Master of the Jaunpur Kalpasutra
Indian
Date: ca. 1465
Type: Painting
Medium: Opaque watercolor on paper
Size: Overall: 4 5/8 x 11 1/2 in. (11.8 x 29.2 cm)
Place: India, (Gujarat, Jaunpur)
Period: 15th century
Main colour: Gold & ochre · lightness 59, colourfulness 28

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Purchase, Cynthia Hazen Polsky Gift, 1992. Museum record. Public domain: the museum's isPublicDomain field read true when we last checked (2026-10-25); image released under CC0. Licence rules

Devananda's Fourteen Auspicious Dreams Foretelling the Birth of Mahavira: Folio from a Kalpasutra Manuscript

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