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Arjuna Battles Raja Tamradhvaja, Folio from a Razmnama (Metropolitan Museum of Art, 55.121.30)

Folio from an illustrated manuscript, ink, opaque watercolor and gold on paper, ca. 1616 to 1617, Metropolitan Museum of Art 55.121.30

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A folio from an illustrated Razmnama manuscript, the Persian prose translation of the Mahabharata, ca. 1616 to 1617, ink, opaque watercolor and gold on paper, showing Arjuna in battle against Raja Tamradhvaja. Attributed to the patronage of 'Abd al-Rahim ibn Muhammad Bairam Khan, the Khan-i Khanan. Held today by the Metropolitan Museum of Art under accession 55.121.30, Rogers Fund, 1955.

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The Met's own collection API title names Arjuna directly as the folio's subject, shown in battle against Raja Tamradhvaja, a documented episode of the Mahabharata war, corroborated by the Wikipedia record of a fourth illustrated Razmnama manuscript matching this folio's circa 1616 to 1617 date and Khan-i Khanan patronage.

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A fourth, from which only two or more miniatures are currently identified, was made around 1616 to 1617.
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