  In a recent paper Sule et al. (Astronomical Notes, vol. 332 (2011), 655)
argued that an early 17th-century Indian mural of the constellation Sagittarius
with a dragon-headed tail indicated that the bright supernova of 1604 was also
sighted by Indian astronomers. In this paper it will be shown that this
identification is based on a misunderstanding of traditional Islamic
astrological iconography and that the claim that the mural represents an early
17th-century Indian sighting of the supernova of 1604 has to be rejected.
