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# Drawing

This drawing relates closely to a fully coloured painting in a copy of Nezami's Khamsa now in the British Library and done for the Mughal emperor Akbar in 1004 AH/1595-6. It depicts Shirin entertaining Khusraw in a garden pavilion, accompanied by female attendants who play music and pour wine.

- **Kind:** artefact
- **Date:** 1556–1605 CE

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Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/inp.artefact.vam.is-61-1949](https://indike.org/pramana/inp.artefact.vam.is-61-1949) · Pramāṇa
