Renaissance period — works
17,641–17,676 of 20,442 works · most celebrated first
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
Lake Scene
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
Madonna and Child
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
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
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
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
Heavenly King Virudhaka
The Thousand Acres of Clouds, from Twelve Views of Tiger Hill, Suzhou
The Sword Spring, Tiger Hill, from Twelve Views of Tiger Hill, Suzhou
Text, Folio 2 (recto), from a Kalpa-sutra