Alamshah cleaving asunder the chain of the wheel, from volume 11 of a Hamza-nama (Adventures of Hamza)
The image depicts a man in an orange shirt and blue pants, with a sword in his right hand and a round yellow object in his left hand, standing on rocks. He appears to be cleaving a large wheel or millstone in two, which is positioned above a waterfall. The man wears a grey helmet on his head. His right leg is bent at the knee and his left leg is extended behind him. There are several other men around him, some of whom appear to be falling or climbing. One man in a brown bag-like hat is upside down, with his legs raised above his head, holding the top half of the wheel. The background includes a waterfall flowing down a rocky cliff, with trees visible on the right side. The scene is framed by a border that appears to be aged and worn, with some darker areas suggesting it may have been handled extensively.
Artwork Details
- Dimensions
- 713 × 893 px
- Museum Record
- View original
You May Also Like
Encampment in the Mountains
Layla and Majnun in the wilderness with animals, from a Khamsa (Quintet) of Amir Khusrau Dihlavi
Mukhtar throws his wife Maimuna into the pit, but she saves herself, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Twenty-fifth Night
An Ambassador before Humayun
Descent of the Ganges
Demons Fighting Over an Animal Limb
The third suitor, who is an archer, shoots the wicked fairy who has imprisoned Zuhra. He rides on a magic horse prepared by the second suitor and is led to the spot by the divining prowess of the first, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Thirty-fourth Night
Jesus being awakened during a tempest on the Sea of Galilee (folio 77 recto), from a Mirror of Holiness (Mir’at al-quds) of Father Jerome Xavier
A traveler persuades Lorik to return home (top); Chanda objects (bottom), from a Chandayana (Story of Chanda)
Bashir confides his love for Habbaza to an Arab friend, and sends him to her with a message, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Twenty-fourth Night
Battle of Ravana and Jatayu, from Chapters 50 and 51 of the Aranya Kanda (Book of the Forest) of Valmiki's Ramayana (Rama’s Journey); folio from the "Burnt" Ramayana
Tiger Hunt of Raja Ram Singh II
Rustam meets the challenge of Ashkabus, from a Shah-nama (Book of Kings) of Firdausi (Persian, about 934–1020)
Royal Reception in a Landscape, right folio from the double frontispiece of a Shahnama (Book of Kings) of Firdausi (Persian, about 940–1019 or 1025) (verso)
The son of the king of Babylon sees the Brahman transformed into a woman bathing and falls in love with her, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Thirty-fifth Night
The bag of gold which he received for the slave girl being stolen in a mosque, the young man of Baghdad tears his cloths and is about to fling himself into the Tigris, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Forty-eighth Night
Lovers parting, page from a book of fables
Lovers Parting, Page from a Book of Fables
Moses praying to end the serpents’ attack on the Israelites (folio 63 verso), from a Mirror of Holiness (Mir’at al-quds) of Father Jerome Xavier
Krishna and the Gopis Gather for Rasamandala
Left side of a double-page album folio: Outside a Royal Encampment (recto)
The merchant hears of his wife’s unfaithfulness (above); the unfaithful wife performs penance by plucking her hair (below), from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): First Night
Krishna Returns with the Cowherds to Braj, from a Bhagavata Purana
The lion returns to his territory and sees the monkey conversing with the lynx, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Twenty-ninth Night