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But I think the most important of them is that which has been reproduced from the Indian Book Painting-the Jahangir Album ( Muraqqa-i-Jahangir ), from the Berlin Collection, and on which Gowardhan signs thus :s · (View the image of this page) "Work of the meanest of those born in the House, Gowardhan, the servant of Jahangir, the son of Bhawani Das, finished· in -the 'year - .
I think this meetingof Jahangir with Gosain Jadriip represents his last visit to Mathura when he bade him goodbye, I presume that Jahangir had ordered his artist to illustrate the incident, although it is not in so many words noted there that he wished his artist to illustrate it.
Jahangir himself has mentioned in his Memoirs more than once; "I told my artists to depict it ( incident ) as an illustration for the ]ahangir Nama:": Thus it is an undoubted fact that the artists were engaged both at (4) Percy Brown, Indian Painting under the Mughals, London, 1924, pl.
'" II In connection with the events of the· rath regnal year, Jahangir says: · "In the foregoing pages, something has been written about Gosain Jadriip who lived as a hermit in Ujjain.
In the case of Gosain Jadriip, it is not mentioned in so many words that the court artists were ordered to prepare his portrait.
D. r6r6 ) , signature of Gowardhan-e-portrait of Gosain Jadriip who lives in Ujjain-.
" _ · Gowardhan, the artist, who has made this portrait of the Gosain, is a well-known artist of Jahangir's court.