Jain Miniature Paintings from Western India c7.22

c7.22

The next scene, on the left, depicts six laymen, three men and three women (Fig. 200) They are hearing to the sermon of Ṛṣabha, the first Tirthamkara and the father of Bharata and Bāhubali. In the panel, in the centre, is represented Bāhubali practising penance attended by his two sisters, Brāhmī and Sundarī, who had also joined the monastic order.