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The hunter offers the mother parrot to the king of Kamarupa, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Fifth Night

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

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This leper king ruled a territory that stretched from Bhutan to Assam and Bengal.

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