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Khalis repays the prince for his kindness by changing into a snake and sucking the poison from the king’s daughter, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Eighteenth Night

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

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The prince later marries the king’s daughter and becomes a viceroy.

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