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"inscription_translation": "[[verso, Canto, 380]]\nOh Princess, I know that you are not normally impatient; / I also know that for not even one night, you don't see a man in your bed. / Having run away with you to another country, I entered a forest, then didn't stay there. / You did exactly what a union requires; made no mistakes, and you got what you wanted. / Otherwise, why would you come with me? It was only for your heart, Oh woman, that you loved me. / Now you can catch hold of a Mars, Mercury, Jupiter, Saturn, anyone; / Otherwise, take the \"Sun\" and with the Zodiac Twelve wander about. [Translated by Richard Cohen]",
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"description": "Chanda is the heroine of a Sufi romance. The Sufis are a mystical branch of Islam whose followers cultivate love for the divine. This painting is from a dispersed manuscript of the Chandayana painted in a style that was an important source for Mughal painting. Its artists integrated Persian colors and delicate vine motifs with figures presented in profile, within flat, compartmentalized registers, which are horizontal divisions of space. The drama of their interactions is conveyed by means of animated gestures.",
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"citation": "Rice, Yael. The Brush of Insight: Artists and Agency at the Mughal Court. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2023.",
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"Page from the \"Romance of Laurik and Lady Chandaini\" From the Prince of Wales Museum \"Laur Chanda\" Manuscript",
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