2.AN, Jagd in Mandhakur, circa 1604

Illustration for the second akbar-nama in the metropolitan museum of art, new york, acc. -no. 30. 95. 174. 9: during a hunt by the mughal ruler akbar in 1559, a gazelle succeeds in freeing its captured fawn by jumping onto a hunting cheetah, allowing mother and cub to escape. Date: circa 1604.