Nirmala (sect)
Nirmala ( Punjabi: ਨਿਰਮਲੇ, ''lit.'' "those without blemish") also known as ''Nirmala Taksal'' or Girhvarhi Samparda, is a Sikh sect of ascetics.Nirmala: Sikhism
Encyclopaedia Britannica According to the traditional beliefs, the Sanatan Nirmala Sikh tradition was founded by in late 17th century when he sent five Sikhs to Varanasi to learn Sanskrit and Vedanta texts. The Nirmala Sikhs wear ochre-colored/ robes (or at least one item) and keep ''kesh'' (unshorn hair). They observe the same birth and death rituals as the Hindu asc ...
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Painting Of A Nirmala Sikh By Kapur Singh, Amritsar, Ca
Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a solid surface (called the "matrix" or "support"). The medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush, but other implements, such as knives, sponges, and airbrushes, can be used. In art, the term ''painting ''describes both the act and the result of the action (the final work is called "a painting"). The support for paintings includes such surfaces as walls, paper, canvas, wood, glass, lacquer, pottery, leaf, copper and concrete, and the painting may incorporate multiple other materials, including sand, clay, paper, plaster, gold leaf, and even whole objects. Painting is an important form in the visual arts, bringing in elements such as drawing, composition, gesture (as in gestural painting), narration (as in narrative art), and abstraction (as in abstract art). Paintings can be naturalistic and representational (as in still life and landscape painting), photographic, abstract, narrative, sy ...
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