Yaja and Upayaja perform a sacrifice for the emergence of Dhrishtadyumna from the fire, from Adi-parva (volume one) of the Razm-nama (Book of Wars) adapted and translated into Persian by Mir Ghiyath al-Din Ali Qazvini, known as Naqib Khan (Persian, d. 1614) from the Sanskrit Mahabharata, 1598. Attributed to Bilal Habshi (probably Ethiopian, active late 1500s). Opaque watercolor with gold on paper, text on verso; page: x cm (11 3/4 x 6 5/8 in


Yaja and Upayaja perform a sacrifice for the emergence of Dhrishtadyumna from the fire, from Adi-parva (volume one) of the Razm-nama (Book of Wars) adapted and translated into Persian by Mir Ghiyath al-Din Ali Qazvini, known as Naqib Khan (Persian, d. 1614) from the Sanskrit Mahabharata, 1598. Attributed to Bilal Habshi (probably Ethiopian, active late 1500s). Opaque watercolor with gold on paper, text on verso; page: x cm (11 3/4 x 6 5/8 in


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