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Nágini: in painting illustrating a local legend, on wall of shrine at Dandán-oilik, bog; legend recorded by Hsüan-tsang, iii; jewellery, no; picture photographed by Stein, 1o9; pose of figure, no: see also Arhat, grape-leaf, grelot bells, Háriti, lotus, Medicean Venus, seals.

Nandi, bull váhana of Mahákála, 84.

native genius in adapting borrowed art motives, xvi. neck: creases, 4, 9, II, 15, 17, 24; gristly, 6o; long, 15;

plump, II, 17, 24; short, 14, 16; thin, 99; without

creases, 29.

necklet, see jewellery.

Nepalese type of figure, 93

New Delhi, xi-xiii; paintings set up in Central Asian Antiquities Museum, xii, xxv.

newel-post, 38.

`new Route of the north' opened in first century A.D., XXIV.

nimbus: simple in Miran pictures, xxi, 3-5; elaborate in later paintings, xxii, passim.

nipples, of tortured woman, 48.

Nissa Valley, great glacier surveyed, ix.

nivásana, an undergarment, see costume.

Niya, desert site: discoveries at, viii-x: see also Chinese, documents.

North-West Frontier explorations, xiii.

nose, seldom well drawn, xxiii, 16, 17: aquiline, i; curved, Ion; down-drawn tip, 8; fleshy, 73; hog-like snout, 84; hooked, 22, 84; large, 73, 75; long, 30, 32, 6o, 61, 99, and bulbous, 75; pinched, 30, 53; pointed, 6o, 99; patrician, 82; Semitic, 16, 61; small, 14; straight, 29; well-shaped, 73.

nude, rarely depicted, xxvi; almost, io-I2, 48; boy,

8o; children, 18; man, iii: see Nágini, woman. nuns, forbidden to have long finger-nails, see finger-

nails.

porting pothis, 27; varied colour, 78: see also

lotus.

pagrí, 3, 22, 75.

paijámas, see costume.

painters: in demand to decorate shrines, xvii; skill of,

xvi, 5; Chinese, 93; at work, holding brush and paint-

pot, 86, 87.

painting walls of shrines, an ancient practice, xvi; early

work superior to that of later date, xvi, xvii, 19;

palimpsests, xviii.

paintings of north and south compared, xxvii, xxviii;

on wood, viii, xxiii: see Dandán-oilik; removal from

walls, xxv, xxix, 43, 51; transport to India, xxix.

palmettes, see motives in ornament.

Pamirs, preparations for journey over, xii.

Pancasikha with harp, 21.

Pan Chao, Chinese general, conquers Kiloton, xix.

pankhá, see implements.

paper, drawings and prints, x.

paradise, terrace of, 38.

parakeet, two-headed: the jivajiva bird, 38.

Parinirvána, 75, 95: see also mourners.

pása (noose), see implements.

pavement, 66, boo; tesselated, 45; tiled, 49.

pavilion, celestial, 66.

paws of lion, 12.

pearls, 1, 24; in coiffure, 22, 88; see also jewellery.

pedestal-like object, 49, 50, 105.

Pelliot, Prof. Paul, visits Turfán, xviii.

peony, 31, 52.

peri, i i .

Persia, north-east, and Sistán, explored by Stein, xii.

Persian influence, xxi, Io, 19, 65; mourner, 75.

perspective laws: confused, 1o5; ignored, 16; observed,

occupation, diversity of, 42.

`Ocean of Existence', 96.

offerings, see flowers, garland, gifts.

Oldham, Mr. C. E. A. W., help given, xv.

origin of wall-painting in the East, obscure, xvi.

Oxford University Press, xiv, successful reproduction

of Nágini picture, 109.

oxidization of colours, see destructive influences.

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Peshawar Museum, see Kaniska casket.

petals: ribbon-like, 62; petal-shapes above belt, 6o.

phoenix, see animals.

photographing pictures in New Delhi, xxv, Io.

Phrygian cap, see costume.

pictorial painting, 2.

pigment, inferior, 94, io8: see also destructive in-

fluences.

pilgrims contribute to shrines, xvii; procession of, see

Chinese.

pink on cheeks, 34, 53

plaster, qualities of, xxix; brittle and friable, 14, 109.

pleats, 52, 74, 78; affected treatment of, 79; unusual

treatment of, io6.

plectrum, used by musician, see implements.

pomegranate symbol, 22.

ponies, Io 8.

packing sections of paintings and antiques, xii, xxv, xxix.

padmásana: lotus seat or base, xxi, xxii, 19, 20, 21, 23, 41, 43, 56, 57, 65, 74, 81, 82, 86, 89, 96; Chinese rendering of, 53, 69; indented petals, 43; one flower for each foot, 65, 67, 69, 96; pointed petals, 43; sup-

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