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Dushyanta watching his son Bharat playing with the tiger at the end of the Abhijnanashakuntalam (verso), from a Kalighat album

c. 1890
Gum tempera, graphite, ink, and tin on paper

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The women at the right are probably Dushyanta's wife Shakuntala and her mother Menaka.

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