A marble panel in the Dilwara Temples at Mount Abu is carved with dense rows of small Jain figures and scenes.

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Shvetambara

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the white-clad tradition, the larger of the two great Jain divisions.

Religious Art & Images

A Kalpasutra folio with gold Jain text on red panels and, at right, Queen Devananda reclining beneath a row of the fourteen auspicious dream symbols.

Art Entry A Kalpasutra Folio One painted page from the most copied book in Jainism: the lives of the Tirthankaras in gold and ultramarine, read aloud and shown to the congregation during Paryushana. 15th–16th century examples; the text far older

The marble interior of the Luna Vasahi temple at Dilwara: densely carved pillars and arches, a small Tirthankara shrine visible at the rear.

Art Entry The Dilwara Temples Five Jain temples on Mount Abu whose plain exteriors open into marble interiors carved to the thinness of lace — the summit of Jain temple art. 1031–13th century

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