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# Pata

Painted cotton cloth (pata) showing Jambūdvīpa, the central continent or 'island of the rose-apple tree' according to Jaina cosmological theory. In the central circle are, in highly stylised form and annotated throughout in nagari script, the continents, the rivers and the forests.

- **Kind:** artefact
- **Date:** 1700–1899 CE

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