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『東洋文庫所蔵』貴重書デジタルアーカイブ

been lassoed by the person on the left wearing a Chinese hat, who is pulling at the
cord drawn taut by the resisting strain of the Bird. A yelling, spotted demon with
uplifted threatening bludgeon has seized Garuḍa's right wrist, while a third per-
son, behind the demon, is rolling up his sleeves in delighted anticipation of deliver-
ing his blow. Meanwhile a long, thin hound has pushed in between the several legs
of the attackers and has buried his teeth in Garuḍa's right thigh. Behind and above
the archer stands a demon with bald pate and long hair streaming from his temples
behind his ears; carrying a hawk on his right forearm. Behind the victim of all
this violence can be seen a hand with admonishing forefinger raised. This may be a
hand of the warrior figure in voluminous robes to the right, of whom not much has
survived. His left hand rests on the end of a bow and in front is a quiver. A small
part of his face remains between the upward billowing drapery at his shoulders.
Behind Garuḍa are long draperies of another standing deity, and there are traces
of hands above the little adoring figure who stands or kneels beside the next Loka-
pāla. The face of this Lokapāla has the usual glaring eyes and full lips. He stands,
with booted feet, on the verdant, twin peaks of a highly stylized rock, where the
breezes lift high his shoulder drapery.
Better preserved is the small, bearded Nāga deity, standing, barefoot, on a lotus.
His identity is established by the snake head-dress. His warrior trappings are less
elaborate than those of the Lokapālas, and on his legs are the short fur gaiters, or
leglets, frequently worn by figures in the Bezeklīk paintings. The same kind of
leglet is worn by the bony, long-haired, howling demon above and behind him.
This creature bears a long rod over his left shoulder. An interesting person, still
higher up, is a highly respectable artist, with paint- or ink-pot on his left hand and
a brush held daintily in his right. He is clad in a painter's blouse and wears a black
skull cap. At the top of the picture is an elderly sādhū with fierce but rather anxious
expression, wearing a tiger skin over his left shoulder and a leopard skin round his
hips.
The large, majestic Lokapāla on the right, in warrior dress, with plump face,
large round eyes, and an elaborate mukuṭa bearing a gilded dragon or mongoose crest
issuing from a lotus, stands with each foot on a separate green top of a grey rocky
peak. On his shoulders are lion-mask epaulettes and a similar mask adorns his
belt. Upheld, in the finely drawn right hand, is a sankh or a jewel. The left hand is at
the left hip, perhaps resting on the head of a mace or sword. Flames rise from the
sankh and from the wind-blown drapery of the left shoulder. If the little Nāga deity

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