The prince, having deprived the snake of its natural food, a frog, feeds it with a piece of his own flesh, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Eighteenth Night
Mughal India, court of Akbar (reigned 1556–1605)
1962.279.132.b
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