The gardener seizes and beats a donkey who insisted on braying, while the deer, its companion flees to safety, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Forty-first Night
c. 1560
gum tempera, ink, and gold on paper
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The male spotted deer with delicate white antlers is known as a chital and is native to India.
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