A form of Indian poetry, it is a self-contained rhyming couplet consisting of two lines and formed of twenty-four syllables divided into unequal parts of thirteen and eleven syllables. Popular poets of this form include Kabir, Mirabai, Rahim and Surdas.
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A large collection of approximately 550 stories about the Buddha’s former lives in both human and animal form. The stories…
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A richly illustrated manuscript created in the sixteenth century during the reign of the Mughal emperor Akbar (r. 1556–1605), it…
A term coined in the nineteenth century to describe philosophical doctrines that originated in thirteenth and fourteenth-century Italy that emphasised…
The concept of the continuous cycle of birth, death and rebirth, fundamentally seen in most Indian religions, including Buddhism and…
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An illustrated manuscript that details the history of Timur and his descendants in Iran and India. It was commissioned by…