Paras, Bullocks dragging siege guns for an attack on the Fort at Ranthambhor, Rajastan.
 
Date Description Source Reference
1600 A.D. Right foreground. 

Two yurts, one pavilion and one wall tent, enclosed by a red material screen with white top edging, held up on spear headed poles. 

Green yurt, spear head apex, small green dome with red drape on tope of larger green dome with its own red drape. 

Red pavilion, spear apexes and yellow roof edge. 

Red wall tent, disc apex with yellow apron, two point guy rope attachment. 

Yurt, red and gold domed roof with greed drape, black walls with floral decoration on gold back ground.

"Painting designed by Miskin, painted by Paras, for the Akbarnameh, c. 1600, 'Bullocks dragging siege guns for an attack on the Fort at Ranthambhor, Rajastan in 1568...Victoria and Albert Museum, London. Grube, E.J., The World of Islam, London, 1996, p. 155.


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