by Albert Turoń
Culture
Mughal India, court of Akbar (reigned 1556-1605)
The tale of the three men trapped in a c...
Bihzad
The son of the king of Babylon sees the ...
Alamshah cleaving asunder the chain of t...
Portrait of a kneeling holy man, from th...
Mir Sayyid Ali
Hunting with Falcons in a Landscape (rec...
Abd al-Samad
Hunting with falcons in a landscape; ver...
The siege of Arbela in the era of Hulagu...
Basavana
Sur Das Gujarati
A mendicant bowing before a holy man, fr...
The Parrot Addresses Khujasta at the Beg...
The merchant’s daughter meets the garden...
Khujasta kills the pet mynah who advises...
The street cleaner, on his way to meet K...
A woman with two children, having abando...
Sur Das
The emir slays the snake after giving it...
The merchant’s daughter encounters a wol...
The Brahman gives an account of his fall...
The daughter of the merchant of Mazander...
The snake enters into an argument with t...
Jain Ascetic Walking Along a Riverbank
A female figure standing in a landscape ...
The magician disguised as a Brahman retu...
The two couples reach a foreign city whe...
The wife of the son of the vizier brings...
Lalu
The goldsmith and the carpenter inform t...
The monk returns the magic parrot to its...
The magician, disguised as a Brahman, vi...
Tuti-Nama (Tales of a Parrot)
Calligraphy
The merchant’s daughter gives birth to a...
Circumcision ceremony for Akbar’s sons, ...
Dharam Das
Mukhtar throws his wife Maimuna into the...
The parrot addresses Khujasta at the beg...
The origin of music from a fabulous bird...
A Royal Picnic on a Terrace
Muhammad Ali
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
The hunter offers the mother parrot to t...
Mughal ruler Humayun defeating the Afgha...
The prince’s ordeal continues, he is ord...
Ghulam 'Ali
The vizier dissuades the king of Bahilis...
The wolf and the jackal, serving as vizi...
The daughter of the king of the jinns bo...
The suitors take the devotee’s daughter ...
The monkey advises the suspicious lion t...
Timur distributes gifts from his grandso...
Shravana
Babur receives booty and Humayun’s salut...
The rejuvenated old man and the daughter...
The lion returns to his territory and se...
The dervish brings the King of Kings bef...
The soldier receives a garland of roses ...
The merchant hears of his wife’s unfaith...
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...
Seven men disputing possession of a woma...
The Raja of Ujjain, who is traveling in ...
