Before Khujasta can sneak away to meet with her lover, Tuti the parrot begins to tell her a story about a man named Utarid and his wife, Khurshid, who encountered many misfortunes because of her great beauty.

A vertically oriented manuscript page features rows of black Persian calligraphy above a gum tempera and ink painting. A woman with light skin tone, dressed in a blue patterned skirt and jewelry, gestures toward a green parrot on a platform on our left. Behind her, a decorative red-brick wall and building with a pink pavilion are set against a blue sky with white clouds. The scene is framed by a gold and orange border.

Estate of Breckinridge Long [1881–1958], Bowie, MD

(Bernard Brown Agency, Milwaukee, WI, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art. Purchased with funds from Mrs. A. Dean [Helen Wade Greene] Perry)

The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

The parrot addresses Khujasta at the beginning of the thirty-second night, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot)

Text, Folio 65 (verso), from a Manuscript of the Perfection of Wisdom in Eight Thousand Lines (Ashtasahasrika Prajnaparamita-sutra)

The parrot addresses Khujasta at the beginning of the thirty-second night, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot)

Mughal India, court of Akbar

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Mughal India, court of Akbar

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