Jain Miniature Paintings from Western India c13.381

c13.381

It is related that once upon a time one Dhanagiri lived with his wife Sunandā in a village, named Tumbavana. While his wife was pregnant, he turned a Jain monk. Later on, a son was born to him, and that son, knowing the renunciation of his father, withdrew all his love from his mother and spent all the time crying. When he was six months old, his mother gave him to his father who put him in the care of his teacher.