The origin of music from a fabulous bird of India which had seven holes in its beak, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Fourteenth Night

Raja Dilip Singh of Guler on a dais

Northern India, Himachal Pradesh, Pahari Kingdom of Guler

Asavari ragini

anonymous

The queen of Rum watches the peahen prefer to burn rather than abandon her eggs while the peacock flees the nest, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Thirty-ninth Night

Mughal India, court of Akbar (reigned 1556–1605)

The Raja of Ujjain, who is traveling in the guise of a yogi, meets two brothers who ask him to equitably partition their father’s possession, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Forty-sixth Night

Mughal India, court of Akbar (reigned 1556–1605)

Shiva enraged by Parvati's interruption of his meditation

Unknown Artist

Maljaa ojentava mies

Unknown Artist

Saranga malhare ragini

anonymous

Krishna's Insomnia, Page from a Rasikapriya

Central India, Malwa school, 17th century

Khusran näkee Shirinin kylpevän purossa, Nizamin Khamsa-runoon liittyvä kuva

Unknown Artist

Prince and ascetics, from the Late Shah Jahan Album

Govardhan

The Heroine Who Waits Anxiously for Her Absent Lover: Utka Nayika

Northern India, Himachal Pradesh, Pahari Kingdom of Chamba

Dame op rots

anonymous