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| Keywords: Raja Dharma Mitra offering food to Tirthankara Shantinatha - Unknown, Rajasthan School - Google Cultural Institute.jpg Raja Dharma Mitra offering food to Tirthankara Shantinatha - Unknown Rajasthan School - Google Cultural Institute 28 X 22 cm King Dharma Mitra and his wife are offering first ahara food to the sixteenth Jain Tirthankara Shantinatha after he attained kevalajanana absolute knowledge As acclaim Jain texts during his long years of penance Shantinatha had neither taken any sleep nor food After he attained absolute knowledge he came to Somanasapur where king Dharma Mitra offered him his first meal Well versed in Jain rituals and customs the painter has rightly portrayed the bare-footed king pouring water the initial course of ahara into the hollowed hands of the divine guest with his wife carrying the tray of food for the second course As prescribed a Jain monk did not use any bowl or other pot 1850 - 1870 https //www google com/culturalinstitute/asset-viewer/iwFq8Too-7AQbw PD-Art-100 Dharma Mitra Shantinatha Paintings from Rajasthan 19th-century paintings from India Google Art Project works by unknown artist India Files uploaded by Yann Forget Academy of Fine Arts and Literature | ||||
