This shawl, more than any other, does bear a design similar to the schematic drawing style used for those illustrations but this parallel may only be due to Plate Three's highly realistic depiction and not the reliance on a foreign source.

Like all the other ECP shawls, this plant has only one flower and the realism in the draftsmanship extraordinary. What plant was this intended to represent? This is a good question and perhaps a reader with knowledge of botanicals will be able to provide an answer.

Appreciation of nature was not the only reason for the using flowers and plants on shawls and other weavings. Their utilization for dyestuffs and their inherent medicinal properties are two others. Surely these properties were not lost on the Mughals or on any of their contemporaries and today, modern medical science has proven the efficacy of natural plant medicines and increasingly is incorporating them in disease treating therapies.

Did the Mughals believe wearing a shawl with a certain plant or flower on it could somehow metaphysically effect their well being or have prophylactic effects? This is another imponderable but the possibility an inanimate article, like a shawl, could possess spiritual properties and transfer them to the wearer is not as far out as it might seem. This connection might be relevant to the presence of the shawls fragments in the inner lining of Tipu's Rich War Jacket. Were they placed in his battle uniform for such a metaphysic purpose or belief?