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Detail: Moralizing fables involving animal characters traversed the Indo-Iranian world for centuries. At times, they were written down and collected into volumes; when made for a wealthy patron, the manuscripts were illustrated. On view are paintings from five animal fables included in the museum’s nearly complete Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot) manuscript plus one scene from an Anwar-i Suhaili (Lights of Canopus). The stories include the tale of how a leopard and fox endeavored to devour the children of a sharp-witted woman, the justification for why the creatures of the ocean could not deliver a message from their king, and the adventures of a prince who fed a snake a piece of his own flesh to save the life of a frog.
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A woman with two children, having abandoned her home, goes into the forest where she encounters a le |
1560. Mughal India, Court of Akbar (reigned 1556–1605) overall: 20.3 x 14 cm; painting only: 15.6 x 10.2 cm. Gum tempera, ink, and gold on paper |
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