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Page from Kalpasutra (Book of Rituals)
English: Mahavira Plucks Out His Hair

from Kalpasutra (Book of Rituals)
Opaque watercolour, ink and gold on paper
Western India
About 1450-1500

The Kalpasutra (Book of Rituals) is the most important canonical text in Jain literature for the Svetambaras (white-clad), one of the two sects of Jainism. Jainism is one of the oldest religions to have survived until the present time and its basic teaching is one of non-violence. The Kalpasutra is divided into three sections. The first section deals with the lives of the twenty-four Jinas or Tirthankaras, who were the Jain spiritual teachers or \'ford-makers\'. The second part deals with the life of Mahavira, the twenty-fourth Tirthankara. The third part deals with rules for the ascetics and laws during the four months (chaturmas) of the rainy season, when ascetics temporarily abandon their wandering life and settle down amidst the laity. This is the time when the festival of Paryushan is celebrated and the Kalpasutra is traditionally recited.

On his renunciation of the householder's life, Mahavira, the 24th god and last Jain saviour, plucks out his hair, accompanied by Shakra or Indra, King of the gods. Jain monks on their initiation still pluck out a hair today.

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