National Institute of Informatics - Digital Silk Road Project
Digital Archive of Toyo Bunko Rare Books

waist, 48; effeminate, 29; narrow, xxvi, 1, 25, 31, 45:
see 'lion waist'.
wall, 12: ancient, see Chinese: battlemented, 66.
— paintings, destroyed by Japanese, xxi; destructive
agents, xi; mounting, xii; removal to Berlin, xi: see
also destructive influences.
wand, carried as symbol, 83.
Wang Hsiao-chieh, Chinese general, defeats Tibetans
in 620 A.D., xix.
warriors, 84, 85, 90; dress, 65, 93: see also armour.
water: lake, 106, 111; pool, 45; river or stream, 89, 90,
108, 111; swirling, 67, 80, 96; torrent, 102; treatment
of, 102: see also Śākyas and Koliyas.
Wazīristān exploration, xiii.
weapons, see implements.
weary putto in Mīrān dado; in Gandhāra sculpture and
on Kaniṣka casket, xx, 11.
web between thumb and finger of the Buddha, 61, 62,
69, 97, 107; possible origin, 69.
Western illuminated manuscripts, 81.
Western influence in design, 110.
Western Turks, aggressive, xix.
Wheeler, Dr. Mortimer, Director-General of Arch-
aeology in India; help in checking colour proofs,
xiv, xv.
white, little touches of, suggesting flames, xxiv, 1;
designs in, 25.
white ants, see destructive influences.
White Huns (Ephthalites), xix.
white pigment probably introduced from China, 101,
93: see oxidization.

window, 100.
winged angels in Mīrān paintings, 5, 14, 15; winged
figures seldom appear in later paintings, xxii, 106.
— beasts, see animals.
— figures in Gandhāra sculptures, 6, 106.
wing-like ornaments, see motives in ornament.
wings or flames, xxiv.
woman, 46; nude, xxvi; tortured by demons, 48;
Nāginī, 111; in simple robe, like Gothic figure,
34.
wood carvings found at several sites, viii, ix.
wooden documents recovered by Stein, viii, ix, 110.
— panel with painting of 'silk princess' legend, viii,
xxiii; with trimūrti deity, 23.
writing tablets, 28.

yak-like bull, see Nandi.
yakṣinī, 17: see Hāritī.
yak-tail fly-whisk, 104.
Yāsīn, ix.
Ying-p'an, xii.
Yotkan pottery style of ornament, on jar, 20.
'Young China's' official obstruction to Stein's move-
ments, xii.
Yüeh-chih, xix, 38.
Yurung-kāsh river, ix.

Zetland, Marquis of, gives help, xiv.
zigzag ornament, 58, 62, 67, 92.

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