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A Night Goddess Instructing Sudhana, Folio from a Gandavyuha (The Structure of the World)circa 1150-1175

On view:
Resnick Pavilion, floor 1
Illuminated manuscript page, horizontal palm leaf format, dense columns of black script in an Indic hand flanking a central painted miniature with figures in red, blue, and gold
Palm leaf manuscript folio, long narrow format with dense lines of Indic script in dark ink on tan leaf surface, two circular holes visible for binding cord.
Illustrated palm-leaf manuscript with pigment; two figures on a red ground flank a small white stupa, one light-skinned figure seated cross-legged with hands raised in anjali mudra, the other a blue-skinned crowned figure in patterned garments; columns of Devanagari script border the miniature on both sides.

Unknown, A Night Goddess Instructing Sudhana, Folio from a Gandavyuha (The Structure of the World), circa 1150-1175, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, From the Nasli and Alice Heeramaneck Collection, Museum Associates Purchase, photo © Museum Associates/LACMA

Artist or Maker
Unknown
Title
A Night Goddess Instructing Sudhana, Folio from a Gandavyuha (The Structure of the World)
Place Made
Nepal
Date Made
circa 1150-1175
Medium
Opaque watercolor and ink on palm leaf
Dimensions
2 x 21 3/4 in. (5.1 x 55.3 cm)
Credit Line
From the Nasli and Alice Heeramaneck Collection, Museum Associates Purchase
Accession Number
M.71.1.1f
Classification
Manuscripts
Collecting Area
South and Southeast Asian Art
Curatorial Notes
See M.71.1.1a.
Selected Bibliography
  • Pal, Pratapaditya. Art of Nepal. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art; University of California Press, 1985.
  • Rosenfield, John. The Arts of India and Nepal: The Nasli and Alice Heeramaneck Collection. Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1966.
  • Kramrisch, Stella. The Art of Nepal. New York: The Asia House Inc., 1964.
  • Vajracharya, Gautama V. Watson Collection of Indian Miniatures at the Elvehjem Museum of Art: Detailed Study of Selected Works. Madison, WI: Elvehjem Museum of Art, University of Wisconsin , 2002.
  • Anderson, D. The Aesthetics of Calligraphy. Los Angeles: University of Southern California, 1977.
  • Little, Stephen, Tushara Bindu Gude, Karina Romero Blanco, Silvia Seligson, Marco Antonio Karam. Las Huellas de Buda. Ciudad de México : Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia, 2018.