The hunter offers the mother parrot to the king of Kamarupa, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Fifth Night
The image depicts a colorful illustration with a group of people and a bird. A man sits on a throne-like chair on the right, wearing white pants and an orange shirt. He has a green and red parrot on his left hand. A man stands to his left, wearing a gray outfit and red turban, and holds a bird cage. To the left of the standing man, a man sits cross-legged on the floor wearing orange. Two men wearing yellow and orange outfits sit to his right. A man wearing green and holding a sword stands behind the man on the throne. The background features a pink wall on the left and a yellow wall on the right. The top of the image shows a decorative border with buildings and a dark blue sky. The bottom half of the image contains black text written in a foreign language, likely Arabic. The image has a gold border around it.
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