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Ghatotkacha and three demons in his company chase Bhagadatta, from Bhishma-parva (volume six) of a Razm-nama (Book of Wars) adapted from the Sanskrit Mahabharata and translated into Persian by Mir Ghiyath al-Din Ali Qazvini, known as Naqib Khan (Persian, d. 1614)

Ghatotkacha and three demons in his company chase Bhagadatta, from Bhishma-parva (volume six) of a Razm-nama (Book of Wars) adapted from the Sanskrit Mahabharata and translated into Persian by Mir Ghiyath al-Din Ali Qazvini, known as Naqib Khan (Persian, d. 1614)

Fazl · 1616–17

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Palette

Khaki
65% of the image
Gold & ochre · text contrast 6.3:1

Ivory
23% of the image
White & cream · text contrast 16.0:1

Terracotta
5% of the image
Red · text contrast 4.7:1

Steel blue
5% of the image
Blue · text contrast 5.0:1

Persimmon
1% of the image
Red · text contrast 4.7:1

Marigold
1% of the image
Yellow · text contrast 8.5:1

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: Fazl
Indian, active early 1600s
Date: 1616–17
Type: Painting
Medium: Gum tempera, ink, and gold on paper
Size: Page: 36.7 x 24 cm (14 7/16 x 9 7/16 in.)
Place: Mughal India, court of Jahangir (reigned 1605–27)
Period: 17th century
Themes: Reading and letters
Main colour: Gold & ochre · lightness 68, colourfulness 24

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 Fazl (death year unrecorded), made by 1617: 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