The tale of the three men trapped in a cave by a rolling boulder, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Thirty-second Night
A page from a book with a colorful illustration and writing in a non-Latin script. The page is aged and yellowed with darker spots. The illustration depicts three men in a cave with a large boulder rolling towards them. The man on the left wears red and sits with his hands raised; the man in the middle wears yellow and sits with his hands raised; the man on the right wears blue and sits with his hands raised. The boulder is reddish-brown. The men sit on rocks and grass in front of a cave opening; trees and more rocks surround them. The background of the illustration is a yellow sky. The writing above the illustration is in black ink and appears to be in a language that reads from right to left. The text is surrounded by a thin red border. A thin blue border surrounds the red border. The page has a thin white border around it.
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