About Islamic Miniature An Illustrated and Illuminated Leaf from the Dvadasa Bhava ('Twelve Existences'), India, Mughal Art, Allahabad, 160005
The manuscript from which this illustrated leaf originates is the only existing copy of the Persian translation of a lost Sanskrit work entitled the Dvadasa Bhava, the narrative of which is based on the Jain hero Vikramanka, a Gupta emperor of the fourth-fifth centuries. This copy of the Persian translation is thought to have been commissioned by Prince Salim (before he became Emperor Jahangir) between 1600 and 1605 when he established a separate court at Allahabad.