‘A King Offers to Make Amends to a Bereaved Mother’, Folio from a Khamsa (Quintet) of Amir Khusrau D
‘A King Offers to Make Amends to a Bereaved Mother’, Folio from a Khamsa (Quintet) of Amir Khusrau Dihlavi. Miskin (active ca. 1570–1604). India, c1597. Metropolitan Museum, New York. “A king submits to justice after having accidentally killed a shepherd while hunting. He offers the boy’s grieving mother a choice: to take his sword and cut off his head, which will fall in the golden dish between them, or to accept the second dish filled with gold.” -- source link
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