Mughal Painting at the Cleveland Museum of Art
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Text, Folio 59 (verso), from a Kalpa-sutra
Portrait of a kneeling holy man, from the Prince Salim Album
Radha and Krishna Caught in a Storm
Text, Folio 66 (verso), from a Kalpa-sutra
Woman Addressing a Peacock: Gujari Ragini of Megh, from a Ragamala
Woman Longing for Her Lover: Verati Ragini of Dipak, from a Ragamala
The Parrot Addresses Khujasta at the Beginning of the Eighteenth Night, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot)
Folio 141, from a Kalpa-sutra and Story of Kalakacharya: Text (recto); Monk Holding a Flower Venerated by a Lay disciple (verso)
The monk returns the magic parrot to its rightful owner, the merchant, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Tenth Night
The Parrot Addresses Khujasta at the Beginning of the Twenty-second Night, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot)
The young prince is presented to the king, his father, by his teacher, but refuses to speak, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Eighth Night
Text, Folio 8 (verso), from a Kalpa-sutra
Nemi's Omniscience and First Teaching (below) and Nemi in the Realm of Liberation (above), Folio 51 (recto), from a Kalpa-sutra
The parrot addresses Khujasta at the beginning of the fifty-first night, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Fifty-first Night
Page from Tales of a Parrot (Tuti-nama): text page
The third suitor, who is an archer, shoots the wicked fairy who has imprisoned Zuhra. He rides on a magic horse prepared by the second suitor and is led to the spot by the divining prowess of the first, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Thirty-fourth Night
The Fourteen Dreams of Queen Trishala, folio 14 (recto), from a Kalpa-sutra
The merchant has the hateful skull ground and put into a box, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Twenty-third Night
The three young men present themselves as suitors for the hand of Zuhra, the daughter of the merchant of Kabul, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Thirty-fourth Night
Text, Folio 67 (verso), from a Kalpa-sutra
The king places the talisman on his sleeping wife, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Fiftieth Night
Folio 2, from a Kalpa-sutra and Story of Kalakacharya: Monk Holding a Flower (recto); text (verso)
The invention of musical instruments from the intestines of a monkey, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Fourteenth Night
Text, Folio 62 (verso), from a Kalpa-sutra
Lovers Embracing
Text, Folio 65 (verso), from a Kalpa-sutra
Cremation of the demon Putana, from a Krishna-Lila
Folio 2 (verso), from a Kalpa-sutra and Story of Kalakacharya
The creatures of the sea are asked by the king of the Ocean to take a message to the Brahman, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Eleventh Night
Text, Folio 76 (recto), from a Kalpa-sutra
Text, Folio 16 (recto), from a Kalpa-sutra
Text, Folio 54 (recto), from a Kalpa-sutra
The young man of Baghdad reveals his true identity to the Hashimi, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot: Forty-eighth Night
Text, Folio 46 (verso), from a Kalpa-sutra
Text, Folio 73 (recto), from a Kalpa-sutra
The Heroine Who Waits Anxiously for Her Absent Lover: Utka Nayika