Tuti nama : Husband berates his wife for purchasing gravel instead of sugar ca 1560.


Painting from holy book Tuti nama written during Mughals King Akbar s era the husband berates his wife for purchasing gravel instead of sugar ca 1560. Tutinama, or Tales of a Parrot, is a 14th-century Persian series of 52 stories. An illustrated version containing 250 miniature paintings was commissioned by the Mughal Emperor, Akbar in the later part of the 16th adventure stories narrated by a parrot, night after night, for 52 successive nights, are moralistic stories to persuade his owner not to commit any adulterous act with any lover, in the absence of her husband. Created in a span of five years by two Iranian artists named Mir Sayyid Ali and Abdus Samad.


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Photo credit: © Dr. Suresh Vasant / Alamy / Afripics
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