Nan va Halva (Breads and Sweets), ca. 1690, Made in India, Deccan, Aurangabad, Ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper, H. 9 1/4 in. (23.5 cm), Codices, The text of this book is a series of moralizing poems on the merits of the ascetic life, three of which are illustrated. The painting illustrates the parable of a recluse who accepts bread from an infidel (depicted here as the English monarch Charles II) and is chided by a dog
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