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The wolf and the jackal, serving as viziers, instigate the lion who pursues the Brahman up a tree, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Twenty-first Night

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

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The artist has depicted the gazelle and deer as a blackbuck and cow.

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