Walters Art Museum Illuminated Manuscripts
Burning and melting, Prince Dāniyāl accompanies the young Hindu girl to the funeral pyre, Walters Manuscript W.649, fol. 17b
Emperor Akbar eventually permits the young Hindu girl to practice sati (self-immolation). Akbar's son, Prince Dāniyāl, accompanies the woman to the funeral pyre.
An elegantly calligraphed, illuminated and illustrated copy of the poem Sūz va gudāz ('Burning and melting') by Nawʿī Khabūshānī (d.1019 AH /1610 CE) which recounts the love story of a Hindu girl who decides to burn herself on the pyre of her betrothed killed accidentally just before their marriage. The present codex was penned by Ibn Sayyid Murād al-Ḥusaynī and illustrated by Muḥammad ʿAlī Mashhadī in 1068 AH / 1657 CE.
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Burning and melting, Prince Dāniyāl accompanies the young Hindu girl to the funeral pyre, Walters Manuscript W.649, fol. 17b
Emperor Akbar eventually permits the young Hindu girl to practice sati (self-immolation). Akbar's son, Prince Dāniyāl, accompanies the woman to the funeral pyre.
An elegantly calligraphed, illuminated and illustrated copy of the poem Sūz va gudāz ('Burning and melting') by Nawʿī Khabūshānī (d.1019 AH /1610 CE) which recounts the love story of a Hindu girl who decides to burn herself on the pyre of her betrothed killed accidentally just before their marriage. The present codex was penned by Ibn Sayyid Murād al-Ḥusaynī and illustrated by Muḥammad ʿAlī Mashhadī in 1068 AH / 1657 CE.
To explore fully digitized manuscripts with a virtual page-turning application, please visit Walters Ex Libris.