Lovely miniature. I could not enlarge the photograph. Please enlarge it, if you can and see if Salim is wearing pearls or rings in his ears.

It is painted in the time of Jahangir aka Salim as Akbar died in 1605AD.

Pulin Trivedi Its a ring.

@Arindam Sen: If he is wearing a ring in his ears then the date of 1615 could be correct, as Salim got his ears pierced in 1614AD. And the christian influence has come into Mughal Miniatures. See the angels/cheurabs in the clouds. The sense of perspective in the drawing is pretty sad though and I wonder why, coz it was in Jahangir's time that Mughal Miniatures reached their zenith.

Wo hoo Pulin. :-)

I am glad about Pulin's comment.Personally I would not attribute it to Manohar.

@Seema Bhalla: Seema, Who would you attribute it to? Bichitar or some other painter?

@Satyakam Sudershan: Thanks Satyakam. Mughal Miniatures was my elective subject in my college when I was studying architecture.

A Persian inscription on the lower border (missing in this image) gives Manohar as artist's name.