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The princess discovers the dead bodies, with heads severed, of her husband and his Brahman friend, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Thirty-fourth Night

c. 1560
gum tempera, ink, and gold on paper

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A flag, which is a standard component of an active Hindu temple, was drawn for the tallest dome, but never painted.

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