The Brahman gambler sees the daughter of the king of the jinns in a pit together with an old man and a cauldron of boiling oil, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot: Seventh Night)
Mughal India, court of Akbar (reigned 1556–1605)
1962.279.47.b
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