page_title: Kalpa Sūtra
section_title: Importance
hierarchical_section_title: Kalpa Sūtra / Importance
caption_attribution_description: English: Mahavira's Nirvana or Moksa. Note the crescent shaped Siddhashila (a place where all siddhas reside after Nirvana). Folio 53r from Kalpasutra series, loose leaf manuscript, Patan, Gujarat. c. 1472.
context_page_description: The Kalpa Sūtra is a Jain text containing the biographies of the Jain Tirthankaras, notably Parshvanatha and Mahavira. Traditionally ascribed to Bhadrabahu, which would place it in the 4th century BCE, it was probably put in writing 980 or 993 years after the Nirvana of Mahavira.
context_section_description: The book is read and illustrated in an eight-day-long festival of Paryushan by Jain monks for general people. Only monks can read the scriptures, as in Jainism, this book has very high spiritual values.
caption: Kalpasutra folio on Mahavira Nirvana. Note the crescent-shaped Siddhashila, a place where all siddhas reside after Nirvana.
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