The wolf and the jackal, serving as viziers, instigate the lion who pursues the Brahman up a tree, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Twenty-first Night
The image shows a colorful illustration from a book. A man sits in a tree on the right. He wears a white shirt, pink pants and a pink turban and faces left. A brown tree trunk is on the left and a green bushy tree on the right. A brown lion faces the tree, mid-leap. Four other animals are on the ground or on the left: two brown jackals, a black and white cow or goat, and another animal with a long tail. The background includes pink ground with tufts of grass. A blue sky is visible in the top right. A border surrounds the image and a section of text is at the top.
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