A night scene of Shiva puja (recto); Calligraphy (verso)

Muhammad Rizavi Hindi

Cleveland Museum of Art

The image on the left shows a man with a yellow and green dhoti kneeling on a gray floor. He has a long dark ponytail and a mustache. He wears a necklace and bracelets, with a cloth draped over his shoulder. The man sits in front of a low stone platform holding a lit candle. A hill is behind him, with a crescent moon in the gray sky. A cityscape and trees are on the left side of the hill. The image on the right shows calligraphy on a blue background with a red border. The calligraphy is gold and appears to be in Arabic script. The calligraphy fills most of the blue area. There are four sections of calligraphy separated by lines. The background behind both images is white.