The sage Vyasa, accompanied by three disciples in his hermitage, observes his son, Suka, approaching them through the air like a ball of fire.

The manuscript to which this page belongs has been dispersed but the main portion containing the dated colophon is now in the British Museum (see G. Meredith-Owens and R. Pinder-Wilson, “A Persian Translation of the Mahabharata”, British Museum Quarterly, vol. 20).

This page is from a manuscript of the Razmnama, or Book of War, copied in the late 16th century at the Mughal court. It was the Persian translation commissioned by the emperor Akbar of the Sanskrit epic text, the Mahabharata.