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Folio 40 from a Kalpa-sutra: Text (recto); Birth of Mahavira (verso)
Kali Enshrined (verso), from a Kalighat album
Tuti-Nama (Tales of a Parrot)
Leaf from a Kalighat album: The Goddess Kali (recto); Kali Standing on Shiva (verso)
A prince conversing with a woman while taking refreshments on a terrace (recto); Calligraphy (verso)
Page from Tales of a Parrot (Tuti-nama): text page
Habbaza meets Bashir under a tree, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Twenty-fourth Night
Desk Album: Flower and Bird Paintings (Peony)
The Goddess Kali (recto), from a Kalighat album
Rai Raja, from a Kalighat album
The origin of music from a fabulous bird of India which had seven holes in its beak, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Fourteenth Night
The merchant’s daughter meets the gardener, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Twelfth Night
Page from Tales of a Parrot (Tuti-nama): text page
Yaja and Upayaja perform a sacrifice for the emergence of Dhrishtadyumna from the fire, from Adi-parva (volume one) of the Razm-nama (Book of Wars) adapted and translated into Persian by Mir Ghiyath al-Din Ali Qazvini, known as Naqib Khan (Persian, d
Sudhana and a pair of antelopes, folio 37 (recto) from a Gandavyuha-sutra (Scripture of the Supreme Array)
The four destitute friends go to a wise man who gives each one of them a magic shell to be placed on top of the turban, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Forty-seventh Night
Folio B: Folio from the "Five Treasures" (Panj Ganj) of Jami (recto)
The parrot addresses Khujasta at the beginning of the forty-seventh night, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Forty-seventh Night
Tuti-Nama (Tales of a Parrot): Tale XIII
Desk Album: Flower and Bird Paintings (Rose)
In order to falsely implicate her husband, Hamnaz places a knife by his side and lets the blood dripping from her nose stain his clothes, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Twenty-fifth Night
The Marriage of Pradyumna and Rukmavati, page from a Bhagavata Purana
The unfaithful wife explaining away the presence of the dough elephant, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Eighth Night
Page from Tales of a Parrot (Tuti-nama): text page
Matsya, Fish Avatara of Vishnu
Sunday Afternoon in the Country
Page from Tales of a Parrot (Tuti-nama): text page
The dervish brings the King of Kings before the king of Bahilistan, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Seventh Night
The Parrot Addresses Khujasta at the Beginning of the Eighth Night, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot)
Friends of Krishna, folio 163 from a Bhakti Ratnavali of Vishnu Puri
The Parrot Addresses Khujasta at the Beginning of the Seventh Night, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot)
Falcon on a Perch
The parrot addresses Khujasta at the beginning of the thirty-seventh night, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot)
Page from Tales of a Parrot (Tuti-nama): text page
Shahr-Arai and her lover dallying on a bed beneath which is concealed her husband, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Fortieth Night
Dipak Raga, One of the Thirty-Six Melodies (Ragamala): Personifying Love
Portrait of Lucrezia Panciatichi
Mt. Qingbian
The siege of Arbela in the era of Hulagu Khan, from a Chingiz-nama (Book of Chingiz Khan) of the Jami al-tavarikh (Compendium of Chronicles) of Rashid al-Din (Persian, 1247–1318)
Shiva Bearing Aloft the Body of His Sati
The siege of Arbela in the era of Hulagu Khan, page from a Chingiz-nama (Book of Chingiz Khan) of the Jami al-tavarikh (Compendium of Chronicles) of Rashid al-Din (Persian,1247–1318)
A Heroine Waiting for Her Paramour: Vasakasajja Nayika, from a Nurpur Rasikapriya
The Holy Family with Saint John the Baptist and Saint Margaret
Battle of Isly, August 14, 1844
Folio 20 from a Gandavyuha-sutra (Scripture of the Supreme Array): Sudhana and a parrot (recto); Text (verso)
Habbaza’s sister, who is sent to console her, discovers the disguised Arab in her place, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Twenty-fourth Night
Khalis repays the prince for his kindness by changing into a snake and sucking the poison from the king’s daughter, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Eighteenth Night
Seven men disputing possession of a woman bring her before the Tree of Justice into which she is absorbed, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Sixth Night