Text, Folio 9 (recto), from a Manuscript of the Perfection of Wisdom in Eight Thousand Lines (Ashtasahasrika Prajnaparamita-sutra)Text, Folio 9 (recto), from a Manuscript of the Perfection of Wisdom in Eight Thousand Lines (Ashtasahasrika Prajnaparamita-sutra)
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Rama’s brothers Bharata and Shatrughna set out from Ayodhya to find Rama and Lakshmana in the forest to inform them of the death of their father Dasharatha, from Chapter 77 of the Ayodhya Kanda (Book of Ayodhya) of a Ramayana (Rama’s Journey)
The court jester meets a Zangi dancing with joy, and learns from him that the cause of his happiness is his assignation with a woman who is the jester’s own wife, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Twenty-second Night
Text describing the pregnancy of Queen Trishala, folio 40 (recto) from a Kalpa-sutra
SurajuThe prince sent back to the place of execution for the sixth time, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Eighth Night
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Text, Folio 13 (verso), from a Kalpa-sutra
Text, Folio 110 (verso), from a Manuscript of the Perfection of Wisdom in Eight Thousand Lines (Ashtasahasrika Prajnaparamita-sutra)
Text, folio 163 (verso), from a Manuscript of the Perfection of Wisdom in Eight Thousand Lines (Ashtasahasrika Prajnaparamita-sutra)
Pietro PeruginoChrist and the Woman of Samaria
SassettaSt. Francis Kneeling before Christ on the Cross
Matsya, Fish Avatara of Vishnu
Text, Folio 68 (verso), from a Manuscript of the Perfection of Wisdom in Eight Thousand Lines (Ashtasahasrika Prajnaparamita-sutra)
Rooster
Blessed Lord Buddha
The two couples reach a foreign city where they make their home, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Thirty-third Night
Krishna and Radha Quarreling: Shatha Nayaka, from a Rasikapriya
Bijan killing the wild boars of Irman, from a Shah-nama (Book of Kings) of Firdausi (Persian, about 934–1020)
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Master of RiglosRetable of Saints Athanasius, Blaise, and Agatha
The origin of music from a fabulous bird of India which had seven holes in its beak, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Fourteenth Night
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
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Birth of Nemi, Folio 48 (verso), from a Kalpa-sutra
The heroine who waits anxiously for her absent lover (Utka Nayika)
The merchant hears of his wife’s unfaithfulness (above); the unfaithful wife performs penance by plucking her hair (below), from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): First Night
A Mandi royal family member receives a noble
Hunhar IIFlowering Marigold (verso)
NainsukhTwo Elephants Fighting in a Courtyard Before Muhammad Shah
Text, Folio 33 (verso), from a Kalpa-sutra
Text, Folio 58 (verso), from a Kalpa-sutra
Text, folio 182 (recto), from a Manuscript of the Perfection of Wisdom in Eight Thousand Lines (Ashtasahasrika Prajnaparamita-sutra)
Text, folio 177 (recto), from a Manuscript of the Perfection of Wisdom in Eight Thousand Lines (Ashtasahasrika Prajnaparamita-sutra)
UbekendtPortræthoved af en ældre mand
The dervish brings the King of Kings before the king of Bahilistan, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Seventh Night
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Bejeweled Buddha Preaching
A princess on a terrace with attendants at night (recto); Calligraphy (verso)
Banavari 1The astrologer predicts a calamity for the newly born prince in his thirteenth year, but one which he would be able to overcome, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Eighth Night
Opium Smokers Served Fruit and Bread
Krishna Steals the Clothes of the Cowgirls (Gopis) (recto), from a Kalighat album
Tuti-Nama (Tales of a Parrot)
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A Young, Angry Heroine, Folio 28 from a Rasamanjari
Shiva and Devi on Gajasura's hide