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Text, Folio 5 (recto), from a Kalpa-sutra
The handmaiden again appeals for justice and the prince is led to the place of execution for the third time, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Eighth Night
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
Text, Folio 34 (verso), from a Kalpa-sutra
Text, Folio 50 (verso), from a Kalpa-sutra
Text, Folio 28 (verso), from a Kalpa-sutra
The Parrot Addresses Khujasta at the Beginning of the Twenty-seventh Night, form a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot)
Folio 2, from a Great Poem about Twos (Dvyashraya Mahakavya) of Hemachandra with Commentary by Abhayatilaka
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
Baptism of Christ
Returning to the Village in a Rainstorm
Text, Folio 55 (recto), from a Kalpa-sutra
Text, Folio 26 (verso), from a Kalpa-sutra
The Birth and Naming of John the Baptist
Text, Folio 9 (recto), from a Kalpa-sutra
Text, Folio 48 (recto), from a Kalpa-sutra
Portrait of a Youth as Saint Sebastian
Chinese Literatus Viewing a Valley
The prince’s ordeal continues, he is ordered away to be executed for the fifth time, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Eighth Night
Text, Folio 15 (verso), from a Kalpa-sutra
Terminus, the Device of Erasmus
The merchant’s daughter meets the gardener, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Twelfth Night
Seated Priest
Old Trees by a Wintry Brook
The parrot addresses Khujasta at the beginning of the thirty-sixth night, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot)
A woman asks her lover to leave her house, brandishing his sword and feigning rage in order to deceive her husband who has just arrived, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Eighth Night
Text, Folio 34 (recto), from a Kalpa-sutra
Text, Folio 17 (recto), from a Kalpa-sutra
A holy man prostrating himself before a learned prince
The daughter-in-law of the king of Banaras sees the jackal deprived of its food by a bird, as it unsuccessfully attempts to catch a fish, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Sixteenth Night
Hunting with falcons in a landscape; verso: Calligraphy of Chaghatai Turkish poems in praise of wine, Sultan Muhammad Nur (Persian, c. 1472–1536) and Mirza Muhammad (probably Persian, active c. 1520s)
Virgin and Child with the Young Saint John the Baptist
Text, Folio 58 (verso), from a Kalpa-sutra
The Raja’s daughter and her lover stoned to death for adultery, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Forty-Second Night
The parrot laughs on hearing the Raja of Ujjain’s wife admire her beauty in a mirror, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot: Forty-sixth Night
Text, Folio 67 (recto), from a Kalpa-sutra