 In one miniature the figure of the king in the story is the earliest known portrait of Akbar.The main narrator of the 52 stories of "Tutinama" is a parrot, who tells stories to his owner, a woman called Khojasta, in order to prevent her from committing any illicit affair while her husband (a merchant by the name Maimunis) is away on business.The merchant had gone on his business trip leaving behind his wife in the company of a mynah and a parrot.