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Acharya Shri Kailassagarsuri Gyanmandir
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They were not only adapt in painting .writing and copying religious and secular manuscripts but illuminating them with gold also. They painted scenes on the walls and gilded them. Preparing jain ritualistic artifacts, letters of invitation (Vijnyptipatras), horoscopes as also the jain yantras on cloth, paper and metal was their most familiar Occupation They painted Ganesha, Lakshmi, Sarasvati, Riddhi-Siddhi, Kala-Gora, Bhairava, Durga, Shiva family, jain Tirthankaras and local heros like Ramdev, Gogapir etc.
During the survey the following M$. were studies: 1. Salibhadra ni Chaupai painted at Bikaner, in Ca. 1773. Painter's name, Jogidas son of Akhairaj. Coll: Prince of Wales Museum, Bombay. No. 5123. (There is one more similar MS. in this collection No. 58.3) 2. Pawar Jagdev ri bat Painted at Bikaner. V. S. 1831=1774. painted by Mathen Ramkrishna resident of Bikaner.
Naolakha coll. Calcutta.
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