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The three suitors again begin to quarrel among themselves for the hand of the devotee’s daughter, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Twentieth Night

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

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When the daughter joins the temple, she will shave her head and don woolen clothing.

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