Innermost Asia : vol.2 / 440 ページ（カラー画像）

0440	Innermost Asia : vol.2
極奥アジア : vol.2

an ox-head, reduced to a small scale and showing two horns wide apart. Its shape closely corre-
sponds to that of Rustam's famous *gurz*, as Persian iconography of Muhammadan times knows it in
familiar illustrations of the Shāhnāmah and elsewhere. The left hand is raised above the waist.
What the object is which it may hold cannot be made out.

Costume of
Rustam-
like figure. From elbow to wrist the arm is covered by the same dark blue robe which extends from below
the neck to above the knees. This robe is edged with a dark red band showing a pattern of yellow
spots like those described above. Only this band is visible on the right arm. A dark red belt,
with a jewelled round buckle in the centre, encircles the waist. From below the robe the left leg
with bent knee projects, clad in richly ornamented narrow trousers or leggings. Their colour is
dark red, on which is shown an elaborate floral pattern in yellow, embroidered or woven. The
left foot, turned to the left, wears a dark-coloured boot reaching to the ankle. A narrow sword,
with its sheath represented by a red stripe with bead ornament along its length, hangs against the
left thigh. [Passing behind the calf of the visible leg it reappears in front of the shin. One of the
slings supporting the sword shows just below the waist-belt.] From behind the figure's neck there
flutter upwards two curling white bands shown across and beyond the greenish halo which encircles
the head. As the head-dress, too, is white, they may, I think, be safely taken to correspond to
the scarf-like taenia shown fluttering behind the crown of kings on Sasanian rock sculptures and
on coins. Beyond this imposing figure only the head of an attendant could be recognized, drawn
on a much smaller scale and turned towards the former.⁴ᵃ

Representa-
tion of
Rustam. There could be little doubt that the seated figure receiving worship and offerings was meant to
represent a quasi-deified personage, and the ox-headed mace in his hand unmistakably pointed to
Rustam, the great legendary hero of Sīstān. In fact, the men from the hamlets across the 'Naizār'
who were employed by us at once recognized the familiar emblem and spread the news of the
discovery widely. But quite as interesting to me, and in some respects more puzzling, appeared
the three-headed figure standing in worshipping attitude before the seated one. The treatment
of the composite head is exactly the same as in Trimūrti representations of Buddhist art known
from Chinese Turkestān,⁵ and this necessarily draws attention to other points of contact with
certain Central-Asian Buddhist paintings in details such as those of the jewelled ornaments, coloured
haloes, and dress. I could not help being reminded in particular of that fine painted panel, D. VII. 6,
brought to light by me in one of the ruined Buddhist shrines of the Dandān-oilik site in the desert
NE. of Khotan, and of the strange armed and booted divinity, wholly Persian in style of figure and
rich dress, which one side of it shows seated on a flowered cushion. When describing this remarkable
picture, deposited in a place of Buddhist worship and yet presenting a figure so curiously unlike
those of other Buddhist divinities,⁶ I emphasized the unmistakably Iranian character of this
figure, evidently locally adopted into the Buddhist pantheon, but could offer no certain clue for
its identification.

Painted
panel from
Dandān-
oilik. Re-examination of this panel in the light of the wall-painting discovered in far-off Sīstān
seems to me now to supply this clue and at the same time to help us to the right perception of the

国立情報学研究所 - ディジタル・シルクロード・プロジェクト
『東洋文庫所蔵』貴重書デジタルアーカイブ

引用情報

OCR読み取り結果

国立情報学研究所 - ディジタル・シルクロード・プロジェクト 『東洋文庫所蔵』貴重書デジタルアーカイブ

引用情報

OCR読み取り結果

国立情報学研究所 - ディジタル・シルクロード・プロジェクト
『東洋文庫所蔵』貴重書デジタルアーカイブ