This essay explores a single illustrated manuscript of Maulana Daud's Sufi narrative the Cāndāyana from the Rylands Library, Manchester, to help make sense of how Sufi poets and the sultanate-period painters who illustrated their verses realized the indigenous aesthetics of eros and the nāyikā.
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