Akbar Hunting in an EnclosureAkbar Period
16th century AD.
Hunting was essential for every King. It not only refined the martial tactics of the King, it also symbolised the King as good killing the evil and wild beasts. Thus it was a practical skill and symbolic.
Akbar was fond of his hunt. Here we see him chasing antelope and deers while mounted on his horse. He is hunting animals in an enclosure--in a technique call 'qamargah'.
In one of the hunts Akbar became disgusted with the nonsensical violence. Like Ashoka the Great, he too had a revelation. Henceforth, he diatributed money in charity and stopped hunting. He understood the importance of peace, nonviolence, harmony, and peaceful co-existence.
Miskin, the famous Mughal painter, has caught the violence, the symbolic and the practical senses of the hunt in this painting.
Akbar was fond of his hunt. Here we see him chasing antelope and deers while mounted on his horse. He is hunting animals in an enclosure--in a technique call 'qamargah'.
In one of the hunts Akbar became disgusted with the nonsensical violence. Like Ashoka the Great, he too had a revelation. Henceforth, he diatributed money in charity and stopped hunting. He understood the importance of peace, nonviolence, harmony, and peaceful co-existence.
Miskin, the famous Mughal painter, has caught the violence, the symbolic and the practical senses of the hunt in this painting.
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