Gulistan+Bustan+Sa'adi+Sadi+King+Tughral+Dervish+Persian+Indian+Mughal+paintings+Art+Illustration+landscape+Court+Literature

 An_old_man,_who_pulled_out_a_thorn

from_the_foot_of_an_orphan,

 A_wrestling_match

 A_supposedly_pious_man_being_fanned_by_a_slave_and

watched_by_a_king

who_is_surprised_at_his_hypocrisy

 A_man_advised_by_village_elders_to_divorce_his_wife

because_of_their_constant_quarreling

 A_peasant_brought_before_a_tyrant_king_and_ordered_to_be_executed

 King_Ṭughral_being_served_wine_by_his_servant

Saʿdī_and_a_dervish_go_to_settle_their_quarrel_before_a_judge

 Saʿdī_and_another_man_visiting_Shāṭir_Iṣfāhānī

 Saʿdī_surrenders_his_arms_to_two_Indian_robbers

a_banquet_in_a_landscape.

 A_maid_dipped_in_the_sea_as_a_cure_for_her_fear_of_water

 Gulistan_Sadi

 Gulistan_Sadi

 A_dervish_expressing_his_devotion

A_king_finds_a_judge_inebriated

 Darius,_the_Persian_king,_meeting_his_herdsman_while_hunting

The_text_of_the_Gulistān.

a_banquet_in_a_landscape.

 In_this_illustration_depicting_a_banquet.

The_inscriptions_contain_honorific_titles_as_well_as_poetic_verses.

A_boy_shoots_an_arrow_through_a_ring

placed_on_top_of_a_dome_and_claims_it 

 Banquet_scene_in_a_landscape

In_this_illustration_depicting_figures_feasting_outside_and_walking

toward_the_banquet_shown_on_the_opposite_side.