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Majnun among the animals (right); the youth thrown to the kings' dogs is unharmed (left)

From a manuscript of Nizami, Layla u Majnun copied c 1590, painted by Dhanwan and Asi respectively, Bodleian Library, University of Oxford, MS Pers d 102, pp65–66.