In this mesmerizing painting, the viewer is transported into a realm where the sacred and the sensuous entwine. At its heart sits a female ascetic, her gaze cast inward, lost in contemplation, her matted locks and austere robes evoking the image of a yogini or mendicant. Around her, a tableau of noble women, resplendent in luxurious garments and adorned with jewels approach with offerings, their graceful gestures and reverent postures echoing the solemnity of the moment. One figure, strikingly poised as she leans pensively against a swing, wears her hair bound in a bandeau, a symbolic gesture hinting at her own spiritual awakening and movement toward renunciation. Persianate influences weave through the scene seen in the floral motifs and the spatial rhythm of the landscape, affirming the sophisticated aesthetic sensibility of Deccan art. Beyond the figures, a serene river meanders through rolling hills. The folio’s reverse features a calligraphic panel signed by Abdul Baqi Mawduda, set against a floral gold-speckled background with a blue border. A composition of comparable introspection appears in Acquisitions of the Princeton University Art Museum 2013, Record of the Princeton University Art Museum 73 (2014), p. 47.