Yaja and Upayaja perform a sacrifice for the emergence of Dhrishtadyumna from the fire, from Adi-parva (volume one) of the Razm-nama (Book of Wars) adapted and translated into Persian by Mir Ghiyath al-Din Ali Qazvini, known as Naqib Khan (Persian, d. 1614) from the Sanskrit Mahabharata

Bilal Habshi · 1598

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Palette

Fawn
66% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 6.3:1

Ash
14% of the image
Grey · text contrast 6.9:1

Pale stone
8% of the image
Grey · text contrast 10.8:1

Terracotta
6% of the image
Red · text contrast 5.2:1

Graphite
4% of the image
Grey · text contrast 10.4:1

Saffron
3% of the image
Yellow · text contrast 8.1:1

Colours measured by this site from the museum image (k-means in CIELAB). Names are the nearest in our own list and describe how the colour looks, not the pigment. Text on each chip uses whichever of black or white contrasts more (WCAG ratio shown). How

Details

Artist: Bilal Habshi
probably Ethiopian, active late 1500s
Date: 1598
Type: Painting
Medium: Gum tempera, ink, and gold on paper
Size: Page: 29.8 x 16.8 cm (11 3/4 x 6 5/8 in.)
Place: Mughal India
Period: 16th century
Themes: Reading and letters
Main colour: Gold & ochre · lightness 61, colourfulness 20

Cleveland Museum of Art. Museum record. Public domain. United States: Cleveland Museum of Art marks it public domain (share_license_status = CC0). Europe: Made by Bilal Habshi (death year unrecorded), made by 1598: its maker died long before 1956, and any term counted from publication has also run out. Last checked 2026-10-31 (share_license_status is CC0: yes). Image released by the museum under CC0. Licence rules