Renaissance period — works
17,461–17,496 of 20,442 works · most celebrated first
Latif, who has murdered his brother, falsely accuses Khurshid of the deed, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Thirty-second Night
The king plucks fruit from the Tree of Life with his own hands and feeds it to a lady, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Ninth Night
The magician, disguised as a Brahman, visits the king of Babylon, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Thirty-fifth Night
The parrot mother cautions her young on the danger of playing with foxes, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Fifth Night
The son of the pious man slays the dragon, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Fifty-second Night
Mount Hua
King Kumarapala Pays Reverence to Hemachandra: Folio 2 (recto), from a Great Poem about Twos (Dvyashraya Mahakavya) of Hemachandra with Commentary by Abhayatilaka
The fourth man digs at the spot where he dropped the shell, expecting jewels, but discovering mere iron, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Forty-seventh Night
Birds and Flowers
Virgin and Child in a Landscape
The prince meets a carefree dancing dervish whose good fortune he purchases for his ring, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Eighteenth Night
The parrot addresses Khujasta at the beginning of the thirty-first night, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot)
Text, Folio 32 (recto), from a Kalpa-sutra
The prince being taken away for execution on the false complaint of the handmaiden, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Eighth Night
Eagles
Virgin and Child with Saints and Donors
Indra Venerates the Embryo of Mahavira, Folio 7 (recto), from a Kalpa-sutra
Moonlit Landscape
A female figure standing in a landscape holding a four-stringed “khuuchir” and a lotus
Text, Folio 20 (verso), from a Kalpa-sutra
Mahrusa’s marriage to the prefect of the city, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Thirty-sixth Night
Birth of Mahavira, folio 40 (verso) from a Kalpa-sutra
Landscape in the Style of Juran
Portrait of a donor
The king of the Ocean, having assumed human form, arrives at the court of the Raja, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Eleventh Night
Adoration of the Shepherds
Tarquinius Priscus Entering Rome
A traveler persuades Lorik to return home (top); Chanda objects (bottom), from a Chandayana (Story of Chanda)
The old man eats of the fruit of the Tree of Life, but drops dead, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Ninth Night
The Baptism of Christ
The young man of Baghdad joins the Hashimi’s boat as a sailor to find his slave-girl on board, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Forty-eighth Night
Text, folio 60 (recto), from a Kalpa-sutra
The parrot addresses Khujasta at the beginning of the fifty-second night, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Fifty-second Night
The wife of the son of the vizier brings the magic wooden parrot to her lover, the monk, who exchanges it for the replica, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Tenth Night
Ducks under Reeds
The Parrot Addresses Khujasta at the Beginning of the Twenty-ninth Night, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot)