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An illustration in the 1305-14
Jami‛ al-Tawarikh
by Rashid al-Din.

Universal History

or Compendium of Chronicles

Ğāmi‛ al-tavārīḫ. Rašīd al-Dīn Fazl-ullāh Hamadānī

Shakyamuni offering fruit to the devil,
from the life of the Buddha





Il-Khanid: Tabriz
Khalili Collection, MSS. 727, folio 34a
Fig. 187; p160 Rogers. Fig. 43; K25 Blair.

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