A PAINTING ON CLOTH OF SHASTA PARASHVANATH
Rajasthan, 20th century, depicting tirthankara Parashvanath sitting on a throne in meditation form, flanked by two mermaids with half-snake bodies, as attendants holding fly whiskers on either side and two ‘apsaras’ from the heavens holding flower garlands, sitting under a canopy of a king cobra with one hundred hoods.
43 x 29 in