The Raja’s daughter, born with three breasts, accompanies her blind husband and his hunchback guide on a journey, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Forty-second Night
Mughal India, court of Akbar (reigned 1556–1605)
1962.279.271.a
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