Mughal Painting at the Cleveland Museum of Art
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The prince rejects the amorous advances of the king’s handmaiden, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Eighth Night
Nanda Solves Vasudeva’s Dilemma, from a Bhagavata Purana
The deceitful wife returns to her terrace after caressing her lover, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Eighth Night
Girls Spraying Each Other at Holi
Timur distributes gifts from his grandson, the Prince of Multan, from a Zafar-nama (Book of Victories)
Krishna Abhisarika Nayika, from a Rasikapriya manuscript
The prince, with the help of Mukhlis who changes into a frog, recovers the ring lost in the sea, and returns it to the king, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Eighteenth Night
The young man changes himself to look like Mansur, and thus inveigles himself into the bed of Mansur’s wife, but is put off by her, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Seventeenth Night
Text, Folio 65 (recto), from a Kalpa-sutra
Maharana Ari Singh II of Mewar (r. 1761–73) with His Consort on a Terrace
Maharana Jagat Singh II of Mewar (r. 1734–51) Dressed as a Bhil, Hunting Deer at Night
The Brahman’s wife who killed a peacock and ate its gallbladder on the physician’s advice, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Nineteenth Night
Shahr-Arai and her husband adopt her lover as a brother in the family, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Fortieth Night
Text, Folio 61 (verso), from a Kalpa-sutra
Krishna being dressed in women’s clothes for the spring festival Holi
The prince, having deprived the snake of its natural food, a frog, feeds it with a piece of his own flesh, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Eighteenth Night
Text, Folio 42 (recto), from a Kalpa-sutra
Text, Folio 6 (verso), from a Kalpa-sutra
Sultan Ibrahim ibn Adham of Balkh Visited by Angels
Text, Folio 11 (verso), from a Kalpa-sutra
Text, Folio 19 (verso), from a Kalpa-sutra
Text, Folio 64 (verso), from a Kalpa-sutra
Krishna and the Gopis Gather for Rasamandala
The king’s emissary being provided with gifts for his mission to Rum in order to seek the hand of the emperor’s daughter in marriage, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Fiftieth Night
Krishna’s longing for Radha, from a Gita Govinda (Song of the Cowherd) of Jayadeva
Page from Tales of a Parrot (Tuti-nama): blank page
Khujasta kills the pet mynah who advises her not to be unfaithful to Maymun, her husband, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of the Parrot): First Night
Text, Folio 21 (verso), from a Kalpa-sutra
Text, Folio 38 (verso), from a Kalpa-sutra
Vigil on the Sixth Night After Mahavira's Birth, Folio 33 (recto), from a Kalpa-sutra
Kaiwan sends a message of love to Khurshid, wife of his brother Utarid who is away on a journey, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Thirty-second Night
Krishna and Radha Quarreling: Shatha Nayaka, from a Rasikapriya
The marriage of ‘Ubaid, son of a merchant of Tirmiz, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Forty-second Night
Prince Shreyamsa dreams of the coming of Rishabha, from a Panchakalyanaka (Five Auspicious Events)
Landscape with a lotus pool, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Eighth Night
Hindola Raga