India/Iran/Pakistan: Sassanid Prince Bahram Gur in the Sandalwood Pavilion. Lahore, late 16th century. Bahram V (406-438) was the fourteenth Sassanid King of Persia (r. 421-438). Also called Bahram Gur or Bahramgur, he was a son of Yazdegerd I (r. 399-421), after whose sudden death (or assassination) he gained the crown against the opposition of the grandees by the help of Mundhir, the Arab dynast of al-Hirah. The poem was illustrated in a manuscript probably produced in Lahore in the late sixteenth which is associated with the patronage of Akbar (r. 1556-1605).

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