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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, 51, 66.
Shamsuddin, Naik; assistant to Stein, removes
paintings, xii, 51.
Shān-shan (Lou-lan), ix.
shaving of heads, see hairdressing.
shoes, see costume.
Shōtchuk, 28.
shrines: cave, xi; established on trade routes, xvii; at
Turfān, xxv; at Dandān-oilik, 109; goal of pilgrims,
108.
Sikh style of wearing beard, see beard.
silk fabrics: found at Astāna, 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.
sī-murgh (phoenix), see vāhana.
Singer oasis, xii.
singing musicians, 96.
Sino-Sasanian pattern and motives, see motives in orna-
ment.
Sīstān paintings in bad condition, xiii; Zoroastrian
legend, xiii.
Śiva, 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 ḍākinīs.
smoke from censer, 35.
snake, 48; as crest, 86; see also woman.
soffits, 8.
spandrels, 5, 36, 37.
spiritual advantage from repetition of the Buddha
figure, 56, 81.
'sporran', worn with warrior dress, see armour.
Śrāvāsti, miracle of, 82.
Srinagar, Kashmir, ix.
statue base, paintings from, 52.
steed, Gautama's, 97.
Stein, Sir Aurel, see Foreword; his photograph of
Nāginī picture, 52, 109.
steps, 38, 90, 107.
stomacher, 60.
Stone, Messrs. Henry, and Son; make colour plates,
xiv, xv.
stone age, objects found in desert, ix.
stool, 45, 71.
storm imps, 85.

streamers, 21; from Chinese hat, 85; from head-dress,
47.
stucco fragments painted and gilded, xi.
stūpa, 10, 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 Dīpankara.
Suddhodana, king, Gautama's uncle, 71.
Sūkā, white dog of, 104.
Su-lo-ho, river, x.
Sumedhu prepares road for Dīpankara Buddha, 63.
Sun-deity, 41.
sun, divine horseman descends from, viii; as symbol,
22, 27, 81, 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.
Sūrya, 66.
swastika, 107.
Swāt, viii; expedition with Sir Bindon Blood's Force,
xiii.
sword, flaming, as attribute, 84; carried by guards: see
implements.
symbols: painted on the body of the Buddha, xxiii,
27; carried by ḍākinīs, 77; by Kārttikeya, 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.
Tāgh-dum-bāsh Pamīr, viii, ix.
tags, silver, 78.
'tailored' robes, xxvi, 28, 29.
Taklamakān desert, ix, x, xviii, 28, 110.
T'ang dynasty rules in Turfān, xix, xxiv, xxv.
tank or pool, see water.
Tantric influence, xviii, xxv, xxvii, 77.
Tārīm basin, xvii; held by Tibetans, xix.
Tashkend; ruler treacherously killed, xix; see also
Chinese.
Tāsh-kurghān, ancient Chinese outpost, viii, ix.
tassel attached to garlands worn by the Buddha, e.g.
64, 67, 69, 79; on monk's shoulder, 68.
tazza, 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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