The artist has rendered the sufi saint caressing a cow, a symbol of agro-dairy Aryan life-way and one of the representative Hindu divinities and a Hindu chanwara-bearing lady behind him. It underlines his religious harmony as a sufi. The artist has widened this harmony further covering within it all animal world, all nature and all mankind represented here by cow and dog, trees, water, hills and sky and male and female, rich and poor, ruler and ruled and saint and devotee. The richly bejeweled saint is semi-naked and barefooted and has as his belongings just a water pot. The artist has attempted to draw his figures and the entire surroundings, tree, sky, clouds, rocks, lake etc. in Mughalia style, though has not so much succeeded in arriving at the sharp Mughal features and fine Mughal lines and forms.
This description by Prof. P.C. Jain and Dr Daljeet. Prof. Jain specializes on the aesthetics of ancient Indian literature. Dr Daljeet is the chief curator of the Visual Arts Gallery at the National Museum of India, New Delhi. They have both collaborated on numerous books on Indian art and culture. the Miniature Paintings Gallery at the National Museum of India, New Delhi.
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