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# Akbar

This illustration to the Akbarnama (Book of Akbar) depicts the Mughal emperor Akbar (r.1556–1605) watching two of his men drowning as they attempt to swim with their horses across the Ravi River in the province of Lahore (in present-day Pakistan).

- **Kind:** artefact
- **Date:** 1585–1595 CE

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Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/inp.artefact.vam.is-2-54-1896](https://indike.org/pramana/inp.artefact.vam.is-2-54-1896) · Pramāṇa
