Keywords: Mughal19.jpg en 'Tutinama' Tales of a Parrot Originally a fourteenth-century Persian tale the Tutinama Tales of a Parrot consists of fifty-two stories that a parrot tells his mistress Khojasta to detain her from leaving home to meet with a lover during her husband's absence The Persian text on this page identifies it as the forty-fifth story; the parrot tells Khojasta about a cunning snake thereby advising his mistress to avoid deception This page comes from an illustrated copy of the text attributed to the patronage of the Mughal emperor Akbar http //www asia si edu/collections/singleobject cfm objectid 12662 date http //www harekrsna com/sun/features/04-10/features1704 htm chunar PD-Old Uploaded with UploadWizard Tutinama |