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Inscribedverso in ink with gold: [two sets of two columns of calligraphic text]
Translation:
1. The day when the stone becomes the place of worship for the flowing water, water becomes like silver lining in motion*
2. From the stream that the water was flowing away from, I said I am leaving and I shall not return*
3. The time when the cloud in the sky begins to cry, the people on the earth begin to cheer
4. The wind began to arrive, and all the dams filled up
5. When the black clouds went behind the mountains, the sun began to awaken
6. The young champions with beautiful faces, removed their clothes
7. When the warriors were in the midst of playing with water, they became the sculptures of legends (their wet bodies was as though they had been sculpted and they looked better than any person wearing the finest of clothes) *
8. In a hurry, I went into the water, and I filled the water with mud and sediment ("gil o laye")
A Prince, with Three Lady Attendants, Seated in a Landscape, from the Khamsa (Quintet) of Amir Khusro
Artist
Pre Mughal
CultureIndian
Date15th century
Dimensionssheet: 11 x 6 3/4 in. (28 x 17.1 cm)
image: 8 9/16 x 4 13/16 in. (21.8 x 12.3 cm)
image: 8 9/16 x 4 13/16 in. (21.8 x 12.3 cm)
Classification(s)
- EASTERN
Credit LineBequest of Mrs. Horace W. Frost
Terms
- prince
- attendants
- landscape
Object number91.15.64
DescriptionThis painting shows a scene from the Iskandarnama, which is one of the five poems in Amir Khusro's Khamsa.Collections
On View
Not on viewProvenanceStuart Cary Welch; to Marjorie B. Cohn; to Mildred Kip Frost, 1966; to present collection, 1991
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