by Albert Turoń
Culture
Mughal India, court of Akbar (reigned 1556–1605)
The Parrot Addresses Khujasta at the Beg...
A Royal Picnic on a Terrace
Muhammad Ali
Timur distributes gifts from his grandso...
Shravana
Babur receives booty and Humayun’s salut...
The Brahman gives an account of his fall...
Jain Ascetic Walking Along a Riverbank
Basavana
Portrait of a kneeling holy man, from th...
Mir Sayyid Ali
The son of the king of Babylon sees the ...
The magician disguised as a Brahman retu...
The magician, disguised as a Brahman, vi...
Alamshah cleaving asunder the chain of t...
Tuti-Nama (Tales of a Parrot)
The merchant’s daughter gives birth to a...
Circumcision ceremony for Akbar’s sons, ...
Dharam Das
The siege of Arbela in the era of Hulagu...
Sur Das Gujarati
The origin of music from a fabulous bird...
The parrot mother cautions her young on ...
Dasavanta
The hunter throws away the baby parrots,...
The monkey slain, his blood to be used a...
Basawan
Mughal ruler Humayun defeating the Afgha...
The merchant’s daughter meets the garden...
The hunter offers the mother parrot to t...
The prince’s ordeal continues, he is ord...
Ghulam 'Ali
Khujasta kills the pet mynah who advises...
The vizier dissuades the king of Bahilis...
The monkey advises the suspicious lion t...
The daughter of the king of the jinns bo...
The street cleaner, on his way to meet K...
The wolf and the jackal, serving as vizi...
The lion returns to his territory and se...
The suitors take the devotee’s daughter ...
The rejuvenated old man and the daughter...
The dervish brings the King of Kings bef...
The soldier receives a garland of roses ...
A woman with two children, having abando...
The merchant’s daughter encounters a wol...
The donkey, in a tiger’s skin, reveals h...
The young prince is crowned and the wick...
Suraju
King Bhojaraja tries in vain to ascertai...
The merchant hears of his wife’s unfaith...
The Raja of Ujjain, who is traveling in ...
Preparation for the marriage of Mahmuda ...
Seven men disputing possession of a woma...
The prince, having deprived the snake of...
The woman conversing with her children, ...
The Brahman gambler sees the daughter of...
The creatures of the sea are asked by th...
Banavari 2
The king of Bahilistan offers his daught...
The court jester meets a Zangi dancing w...
The king’s handmaiden takes the prince a...
The deceitful wife ejects the procuress ...
The deceitful wife persuades her husband...
The Emir slays the snake after giving it...
The parrot addresses Khujasta at the beg...
The dervish brings in as dowry an elepha...
The young prince is presented to the kin...
The young prince recounts his experience...
The Brahman’s predicament is conveyed by...