An emperor aimed arrows at povertySourced
His target was not an army.
It was Poverty, made into a person.
A Mughal miniature from about 1616–1618 shows Emperor Jahangir standing on a globe and shooting arrows at the personification of poverty. The painting turns an abstract social problem into a literal target.
An ambition made
strikingly visible.
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