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Digital Archive of Toyo Bunko Rare Books

sex, often indeterminate, xxvii, 6, 53, 56.

shading (chiaroscuro), xxii, 4, 8, 19, 44, 53, 66.

Shamsuddin, Naik; assistant to Stein, removes

paintings, xii, 51.

Shan-span (Lou-lan), ix.

shaving of heads, see hairdressing.

shoes, see costume.

Shőrchuk, 28.

shrines: cave, xi; established on trade routes, xvii; at

Turfán, xxv; at Dandán-oilik, 1o9; goal of pilgrims,

1Oó.

Sikh style of wearing beard, see beard.

silk fabrics: found at Astána, xii; at Khara-khoto, xi;

at Lou-lan, x, 15, 25, 33; possible influence on de-

sign, 15, 25; suggested in paintings, xxiii; see also

Chinese.

`silk princess', legend and picture, viii, xxiii.

silk trade route, xii, xviii, xxii, 15.

si-murgh (phoenix), see váhana.

Singer oasis, xii.

singing musicians, 96.

Sino-Sasanian pattern and motives, see motives in orna-

ment.

Sistán paintings in bad condition, xiii; Zoroastrian

legend, xiii.

Siva, 23.

six-armed deity, 83.

skeletal structure forcibly shown, 84.

skill of painters, xvi, 5, 31, 90: see also artists.

skull-cap, worn by artist, 86, 89.

skulls: in front of hair, 22; as cup for blood, 77; as

chaplet, 84: see dákinis.

smoke from censer, 35.

snake, 48; as crest, 86: see also woman.

soffits, 81.

spandrels, 5, 36, 37.

spiritual advantage from repetition of the Buddha

figure, 56, 81.

`sporran', worn with warrior dress, see armour.

Sravásti, miracle of, 82.

Srinagar, Kashmir, ix.

statue base, paintings from, 52.

steed, Gautama's, 97.

Stein, Sir Aurel, see

Nágini picture, 52, 109.

steps, 38, 99, 107.

stomacher, 6o.

Stone, Messrs. Henry, and Son; make

xiv, xv.

stone age, objects found in desert, ix.

stool, 45, 71.

storm imps, 85.

Foreword; his photograph of

colour plates,

streamers, 21; from Chinese hat, 85; from head-dress, 47.

stucco fragments painted and gilded, xi.

stűpa, 1o, 47.

style: influences on, xviii, xix; paintings of north and

south compared, xxvii, xxviii; unusual, 102.

stylus, see implements.

Sudassana monastery, where Sumedhu dwelt, 63: see

also Dipankara.

Suddhodana, king, Gautama's uncle, 71.

Sűká, white dog of, 104.

Su-to-ho, river, x.

Sumedhu prepares road for Dipankara Buddha, 63.

Sun-deity, 41.

sun, divine horseman descends from, viii; as symbol,

22, 27, 83, 84.

superhuman character of figures, xxvii.

superiority of early painting, xvi.

supplicant, 79, 93

supporters of garland, 10-14 : see dado.

survey by Stein, viii: see also Blood.

Sűrya, 66.

swastika, 107.

Swát, viii; expedition with Sir Bindon Blood's Force,

X111.

sword, flaming, as attribute, 84; carried by guards : see

implements.

symbols: painted on the body of the Buddha, xxiii,

27; carried by dákinis, 77; by Kárttikeya, 83: see

also bow, cross, moon, pomegranate, rosary, sun.

tablet, writing, viii, ix.

tabs, V-shape, 52; in mouth of fish, 112.

Tachibani, Mr., Japanese traveller, xxv.

taenia, head-band worn to secure tiara, passim.

Tágh-dum-básh Pamir, viii, ix.

tags, silver, 78.

`tailored' robes, xxvi, 28, 29.

Taklamakán desert, ix, x, xviii, 28, Ho.

Tang dynasty rules in Turfán, xix, xxiv, xxv.

tank or pool, see water.

Tantric influence, xviii, xxv, xxvii, 77.

Tarim basin, xvii; held by Tibetans, xix.

Tashkend; ruler treacherously killed, xix: see also

Chinese.

Tásh-kurghán, ancient Chinese outpost, viii, ix.

tassel attached to garlands worn by the Buddha, e.g.

64, 67, 69, 79; on monk's shoulder, 68.

tatza, 33, 53.

technique in painting, xxii, 4, 5, 14; employment of

unskilled hands, 61; freedom in drawing of contour

lines, 61; plastic quality, 19; resemblance to Chinese

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