File:Indian - Single Leaf of Shah Sarmad and Prince Dara Shikoh - Walters W912.jpg

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According to inscriptions written in Nasta'liq script, this painting, Walters manuscript leaf W.912, depicts the Mughal prince Dara Shikoh (born 1024 AH/AD 1615) and the holy man Shah Sarma seated under a tree. Behind the wise man stands an attendant with a peacock-feather fan. A celebrated scholar, sufi, and ruler, Dara Shikoh was the eldest son of Shah Jahan. On the back is a page of calligraphy signed with the epithet Jawahir raqam. There are wide polychrome and illuminated borders on both sides of the leaf.

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current20:03, 3 January 2017Thumbnail for version as of 20:03, 3 January 2017600 × 1,234 (601 KB)127.0.0.1 (talk)According to inscriptions written in Nasta'liq script, this painting, Walters manuscript leaf W.912, depicts the Mughal prince Dara Shikoh (born 1024 AH/AD 1615) and the holy man Shah Sarma seated under a tree. Behind the wise man stands an attendant with a peacock-feather fan. A celebrated scholar, sufi, and ruler, Dara Shikoh was the eldest son of Shah Jahan. On the back is a page of calligraphy signed with the epithet Jawahir raqam. There are wide polychrome and illuminated borders on both sides of the leaf.
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