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Rama and Sita enthroned (recto), from a Kalighat album
The three suitors again begin to quarrel among themselves for the hand of the devotee’s daughter, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Twentieth Night
Bagalamukhi, the eighth Mahavidya, from a Dashamahavidya series
Jesus Raises Jairus’s Daughter from the Dead (folio 82 verso), from a Mirror of Holiness (Mir’at al-quds) of Father Jerome Xavier
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Bernard PerlinThe Jacket
Lene Adler PetersenIndendøre
The rejuvenated old man and the daughter of the king of the jinns take leave of the King of Kings, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Seventh Night
The Brahman’s predicament is conveyed by the wind to the fish who carries the news to the king of the Ocean, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Eleventh Night
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Top cover, from a Manuscript of the Perfection of Wisdom in Eight Thousand Lines (Ashtasahasrika Prajnaparamita-sutra)
The suitors take the devotee’s daughter out of her tomb after breaking it open, when the physician discovers she is still alive, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Twentieth Night
SurajuThe 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
Guillaume VrelantLeaf from a Book of Hours: Coronation of the Virgin
Sagittarius
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Francescuccio GhissiThe Crucifixion
Thomas Hart BentonPoker Night (from A Streetcar Named Desire)
Master of the Fröndenberg AltarpieceCoronation of the Virgin
Divine couple seated in a lotus blossom
Text, Folio 14 (verso), from a Kalpa-sutra
Text, folio 178 (verso), from a Manuscript of the Perfection of Wisdom in Eight Thousand Lines (Ashtasahasrika Prajnaparamita-sutra)
Descent of the Ganges
The birth of Rama and his brothers, from Chapter 17 of the Bala Kanda (Book of Childhood) of the Adhyatma Ramayana (Rama's Journey of the Supreme Spirit) from the Brahmanda Purana (Ancient Scripture of the Cosmic Egg)
Text, folio 5 (verso), from Brahman Rishabhadatta's speech, from a Kalpa-sutra
Tara 2The handmaiden appeals for justice and the prince is taken to the execution site for the fourth time, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Eighth Night
Krishna and the Gopis Gather for Rasamandala
Text, Folio 68 (recto), from a Manuscript of the Perfection of Wisdom in Eight Thousand Lines (Ashtasahasrika Prajnaparamita-sutra)
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Text, Folio 140 (recto), from a Manuscript of the Perfection of Wisdom in Eight Thousand Lines (Ashtasahasrika Prajnaparamita-sutra)
Bernardino ButinoneThe Descent from the Cross
Paul CadmusFantasia on a Theme by Dr. S.
Raja Sansar Chand attacking Kangra Fort
Royal lovers watching rain clouds: The month of Bhadon, from a Barahmasa
ShafiA marbled picture of Rustam catching Rakhsh
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Krishna Stealing Curds
MushfiqZulaykha in her palace and as an old woman with Joseph, from a Panj Ganj (Five Treasures) of Abd al-Rahman Jami (Persian, 1414–1492); verso from a Panj Ganj of Abd al-Rahman Jami (Persian, 1414–1492), with two masnavis: Yusuf va Zulaykha (Joseph and Zulaykha) and Khirad-nama-i Iskandari (Alexander’s Book of Wisdom)
The invention of musical instruments from the intestines of a monkey, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Fourteenth Night
Seated Amitabha with Attendants
Text, Folio 102 (recto), from a Manuscript of the Perfection of Wisdom in Eight Thousand Lines (Ashtasahasrika Prajnaparamita-sutra)
Text, Folio 79 (verso), from a Manuscript of the Perfection of Wisdom in Eight Thousand Lines (Ashtasahasrika Prajnaparamita-sutra)
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Reginald MarshTen Cents a Dance
Holger JacobsenKomposition
Krishna summoning the cows
The farmer, father of the son with the deceitful wife, steals away with her anklet while she is in bed with her lover, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Eighth Night