1598, Dharmadas, Alexander Fights a Sea Battle, folio from the Khamsa (Quintet) of Amir Khusrau Dihlavi -- Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York)
From the museum label: In the episode illustrated, Alexander the Great has ordered the construction of a tall tower surmounted by a revolving mirror in order to battle the pirates menacing the Mediterranean Sea. The protagonists appear as contemporary Indians wearing turbans and tunics, rather than ancient Greeks, and one of the fighters uses a gun, an invention from nearly two millennia after Alexander's time.
1598, Dharmadas, Alexander Fights a Sea Battle, folio from the Khamsa (Quintet) of Amir Khusrau Dihlavi -- Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York)
From the museum label: In the episode illustrated, Alexander the Great has ordered the construction of a tall tower surmounted by a revolving mirror in order to battle the pirates menacing the Mediterranean Sea. The protagonists appear as contemporary Indians wearing turbans and tunics, rather than ancient Greeks, and one of the fighters uses a gun, an invention from nearly two millennia after Alexander's time.