An illustration in the 1305-14
Jami‛ al-Tawarikh
by Rashid al-Din.

Universal History

or Compendium of Chronicles

Ğāmi‛ al-tavārīḫ. Rašīd al-Dīn Fazl-ullāh Hamadānī

Battle of the Pandavas and the Kauravas,
a scene from the Indian epic, the Mahabharata


A detail of the soldiers in the Battle of the Pandavas and the Kauravas, a scene from the Indian epic, the Mahabharata.


Il-Khanid: Tabriz
Khalili Collection, MS. 727, folio 25a
Fig. 183; p158 Rogers. Fig. 37; K21 Blair.

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