This cloth painting depicts Tirthankara Parshvanatha with Yaksha Dharnendra and Yakshini Padmavati, attendants of a Tirthankara Yaksha and Yakshini (a pair of male and female deities) who are standing under canopy of a thousand snake-hoods (Sahasraphana). An intricate circular composition of interring snakes forming knots is created in this painting. This illustration shows the episode of the life of Parshvanatha when Yaksha Dharnendra and his wife Yakshini Padmavati endeavoured to cover Parshvanatha by creating a canopy of snake-hoods over his head and lifting him up from the ground to save him from submergence.Pata of Sahasraphana Parshvanatha
This cloth painting depicts Tirthankara Parshvanatha with Yaksha Dharnendra and Yakshini Padmavati, attendants of a Tirthankara Yaksha and Yakshini (a pair of male and female deities) who are standing under canopy of a thousand snake-hoods (Sahasraphana).
An intricate circular composition of interring snakes forming knots is created in this painting.
This illustration shows the episode of the life of Parshvanatha when Yaksha Dharnendra and his wife Yakshini Padmavati endeavoured to cover Parshvanatha by creating a canopy of snake-hoods over his head and lifting him up from the ground to save him from submergence.