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The Jain Temple Room in the Metropolitan Museum of Art

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In the year 1594-96, according to a preserved inscription, a certain Ratnakuṁyarajī, of the wealthy and well-known Jain clan named Osvāl, with, probably, his sister and daughter as collaborators, financed in Pāṭan, 1 ancient capital of Gujarat, the construction of a temple dedicated to Pārśva, twenty-third of the twenty-four Saviours (Tīrthaṅkaras) recognized by his faith.

W. Brown, Norman."The Jain Temple Room in the Metropolitan Museum of Art."Journal of the Indian Society of Oriental Art XVII, no. 1: A.K. Coomaraswamy Commemoration Volume. Part III (1949): 6-21.

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