
ALT Top left: A doorway leading to the cerulean, snow capped mountains of Northern Pakistan. Top middle: A woman, as if posed for a Victorian portrait, wearing a silk kameez with a heavily embroidered black, oxblood, gold velvet dupatta over one shoulder. Top right: A woman wearing a pearl jada in her hair looks out from an arched window. Middle left: A raven haired woman clad in a diaphanous white garb is cowed in a sea of red. Middle: A 2nd Century BCE Ajanta cave painting of a gold laden couple with title overlay—The Nine Miracles of the Dawn. Middle right: A woman sits in a bath of blood with an anklet clad foot emerging from within and a stain of vermillion on the edge of tub. Bottom left: Golden temple alight with candles and pool of water. Middle bottom: A bare torsoed voluptuous woman sits on a golden throne donning a scarlet jewel encrusted low cut bodice and plain wrap around her hips. Middle right: A golden city with a tall spire that grazes the gathering clouds.




































