Before Khujasta can leave for a clandestine meeting with her lover, she is stopped by Tuti the parrot who begins to tell her the story of a group of small animals who joined together to overcome an elephant. By the time the parrot’s tale is over, the sun has risen and Khujasta is unable to leave.

A vertically oriented manuscript page features six lines of black script above a gum tempera painting. Center-left, a woman with light skin tone wearing a blue top and patterned skirt faces a green parrot on a red stand. To the right, a pavilion with pink pillars houses a patterned rug and cushion. A red railing and yellow hexagonal patterned wall decorate the background of the scene.

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-eighth night, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot)

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The parrot addresses Khujasta at the beginning of the thirty-eighth 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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