Anwār-e Suhaylī

Persian fables

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In South Asian arts: Mughal style: Akbar period (1556–1605)
…animal fables such as the Anwār-e Suhaylī (“Lights of Caropus”), of which several copies were painted, the earliest dated 1570 (School of Oriental and African Studies, London). It was in the illustrations to Persian translations of the Hindu epics, the Mahābhārata and the Rāmāyaṇa, that the Mughal painter revealed to…
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