Between the diamond-stemmed trees are four figural groups that Kramrisch labeled “satyrical scenes” (see Stella Kramrisch, Unknown India: Ritual Art in Tribe and Village. Exhibition catalogue. Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1968, p. 221, cat. 444). At bottom a man embraces a hookah-smoking woman on a fashionable armchair. His unfinished lower body is sketched onto the cloth. The scene at top may be the familiar parable of the blind man and the elephant, a story that originated in South Asia but had spread worldwide long before the nineteenth century. Even more enigmatic are the scenes at left and right. The former shows four horsemen (the top of the fourth rider visible only in underdrawing) apparently battling a nest of cobras and, perhaps, the nearby crab as well. The latter depicts a pair of possibly bearded men, one of whom holds what appears to be a flower and a stalk of grain, the other what may be a stringed satchel or toddy pot, suggesting their possible identification as either religious mendicants or revelers. Darielle Mason, from Kantha: The Embroidered Quilts of Bengal (2009), p. 205.