Painting showing to the right Yama, lord of the underworld, King of the Dead, flanked by the recorders of good and bad deeds amid scenes of the underworld including a mirror showing a sinner a reflection of his misdeeds, in this case a murder, and a disembodied eye and nose as well as various punishments being wreaked on miscreants. This probably represents two-thirds of a whole painting, as Yama would normally have been in the centre of such a painting.
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