Mukhtar throws his wife Maimuna into the pit, but she saves herself, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Twenty-fifth Night

King Muchukunda Enters the Realm of Mount Gandhamadana to Attain Salvation, from the “Fifth Basohli Bhagavata Purana”

Fattu

The fourth man digs at the spot where he dropped the shell, expecting jewels, but discovering mere iron, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Forty-seventh Night

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

The third suitor, who is an archer, shoots the wicked fairy who has imprisoned Zuhra. He rides on a magic horse prepared by the second suitor and is led to the spot by the divining prowess of the first, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Thirty-fourth Night

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

A woman with two children, having abandoned her home, goes into the forest where she encounters a leopard, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Thirtieth Night

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

Layla and Majnun in the wilderness with animals, from a Khamsa (Quintet) of Amir Khusrau Dihlavi

Sanwalah

A girl worshipping the rising sun (Surya puja)

Chokha

Asavari ragini(?)

anonymous

Abhisarika Nayika (Heroine Running to Meet her Lover)

Unknown Artist

Asavari Ragini, page from a Garland of Musical Ragas (Ragamala) Set

Unknown Artist

A Woman Charms Snakes in the Wilderness: Asavari Ragini, from a Ragamala

Northwestern India, Rajasthan, Rajput Kingdom of Sirohi

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

Northern India, Himachal Pradesh, Pahari Kingdom of Guler

The deceitful wife ejects the procuress after blackening her face, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Eighth Night

Shravana