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Chinese monastic accounts found at
Mazār-tāgh, 1290; prob. location of
monastery, ib. See also Buddhist
convents.
Mongol (?) coin from Kelpān, 1347, 1350.
Mongol dynasty: Ch'ien-fo-tung wall-
paintings prob. restored under, 795;
Chinese sgraffiti of, on cave walls at
Wan-fo-hsia, 1113.
Mongol inscr. on stèle, 800.
Mongol period, Ch'ien-fo-tung grottoes
from, 828.
Mongol-speaking tribe, at N. foot of
Nan-shan, 1129.
Mongolian beer, mentioned in Tibetan
doc., 1465.
Mongolian fold', see anthropology.
Mongolian (?) sgraffiti, on cave wall at
Wan-fo-hsia, 1112.
Mongolian type of head, stucco relief fr.,
1193, 1211.
Mongolian type of ponies on printed silk,
991.
Mongols: camps of, 622 n. 12, 638 n. 12;
in Kara-shahr, 1179; known as Kal-
maks, 1180; retard cultivation at
Korla, 1181; semi-nomadic in
Khaido-gol valley, 1224; description
of (Southern) Mongolian type, 1361.
mongoose, emblem of Vaiśravaṇa, 953.
monkeys, figures of: intaglio, 101, 125;
jade fig., praying, 100, 103; soap-
stone, 100, 119; seated, on bone seal,
263; stucco relievo fr., 151; in draw-
ings or paintings, 967, 970, 1060.
terra-cotta figurines, 99 sqq., 107 sqq.,
113 sq., 120, 122, 124, 137, 151; as
baby in cradle, 107 sq., 111 sq.;
carrying female and child, 115; with
drinking (?) horn, 111; with drum,
105, 111; female, 113, 115; grotesque,
105-7, 115; heads, 103, 105-7, 109-
111, 115, 120, 122; appliqué heads,
120; head and bust, 115; ithyphallic,
105, 110 sq., 113, 123; mask, 106; in
meditation, 105, 119; miniature, 105;
nude, 113, 121; nude in symplegma,
104, 113; nursing young, 115; with
jade of discs, 111; playing guitar,
102 sq., 105, 110 sq., 113, 115, 120;
playing syrinx, 105, 111, 120; in
prayer, 110, 122, 123; pregnant
woman (or female monkey?), 113;
'pudica' attitude, 113; seated, 103,
110, 113 sq., 119 sq., 123; squatting,
103, 105, 110 sq., 113, 115, 119 sq.,
121 sq., 133; clasping water-skin, 141;
swimming on skin, in attitude of,
110.
monks: quarters for, 792, 797, 843,
1164, 1225; in paintings, 794, 891,
925, 934, 967, 994-6, 1008, 1010,
1018, 1048, 1068; in paper penance,
969; in silk embroidery hanging,
984; in fresco panels, 1196 sq.,
1213 sqq.; as donors of paintings, &c.,

839, 965, 984, 996, 1010, 1018, 1048,
1068. See also Kṣitigarbha.
monsters: terra-cotta fr. in form of
monster's head, 115; monsters on
carved double brackets, 235, 264;
composite monster, on carved chair frs.,
403, 447 sq.; in fresco friezes, 512,
514; sketches of m., 892, 977;
monster's head, in painting of door-
handle, 851; as shoulder-piece in
stucco relief fr., 1199, 1219; busts on
wooden cornice, 1225, 1229.
Moon, Bodhisattva of, in paintings,
868 sqq., 980, &c.; moon-myth, em-
blem of, 950, 953, &c.
Mora-player, pose of, represented in
frescoes, 527 sq.
mortices: for door-bolts in passage walls,
645, 652.
mosque: remains of (?), at Bilēl-konghan,
274 n. 10; ruins of, at Lapchuk, 1157;
N. of Ulugh-mazār, 1264.
mosquitoes, from Limes marshes, 637.
mother-of-pearl: frs., 116, 145; bead,
125.
moulded ornaments: on glass, 283, 291;
on pottery, 114, 1255.
moulding: on balusters, 187, 196, 378,
404, 441, 443, 449, 1260; on canti-
levers, 200, 247 sq., 257, 264, 1257;
on carved wood, 195, 246, 249, 444,
446, 542, 546; in clay over reed-straw,
1153; on stucco plasters, 486; on
wooden bracket, 1222; on wooden
pillar, 279; on wooden stick, 1392.
ball-mouldings, on wooden balus-
ters, 173, 194, 441, 446, 448 sq., 539,
1228 sq.
bead-moulding, on stucco relief, 790.
club moulding, on pottery fr., 629.
reel mouldings, on bronze stud, 116.
ring mouldings, on turned wood, 171,
173, 441, 1229.
triangular moulding, on pottery, 629.
wedge-moulding, turned wood, 173.
moulds: plaster or stucco, 172, 187,
190, 194, 1287, 1292; methods of
production of figures from, 1193; use
of, accounts for unchanged style of
stucco relievos, 1194; clay mould for
Bodhisattva figure, 1262, 1268. See
also clay moulds, plaster of Paris.
mouse-traps, wooden, 217, 249, 263.
mouth-organ: in paintings, 949, 1041,
1054, &c.; held by terra-cotta figurine,
1469. See also cheng.
mu, Chinese land measure, 749.
Mubarak Shah, headman of Sarhad, 68.
mudrās: drawings of, 892, 966 sq., 999;
in paintings, 860, 868, 877 sq., 882,
890, 937-1088 passim. See also ab-
haya-mudrā, dharmacakra-mudrā, dhar-
macakra-mudrā, dhyāna-mudrā, nyāsa-
mudrā, vara-mudrā, vitarka-mudrā.
Mughul Bēg, mentions inhabitants of
Chitrāl, 26 n. 6; mentions ruler of

Kāshkār State, 33; on Kāshkār, 31
n. 27; mentions Turi-khō and Mul-
khō, 43 n. 10; mentions Abdullāh
Khān's Lasht, 51.
Muḥammad Arslān, coins of, 102, 1309,
1341 sq., 1348, 1350.
Muḥammad Yāqūb, Surveyor, 707.
Muḥammad Yūsuf Bēg, of Keriya, 1321
n. 2.
Muhammadan accounts: see cemeteries.
Muhammadan coins: from Ak-terek,
140 n. 13, 1343; from Yōtkan, 102,
1340 sq.; purchased at Khotan, 102,
1341 sq., 1350; coins of Muḥammad
Arslān, 102, 1309, 1341 sq., 1348,
1350; coins said to be from near
Domoko, 1264, 1347; from Ulugh-
mazār, 1264; from Tokus-sarai, 1309,
1348; from Togujai, Moji, 1316, 1340,
1350; Kine-tokmak, 1342; of Sā-
mānide dynasty, ib.; of Sulaimān
Khāqān (?) 1342, 1350.
Muhammadan iconoclasm at 'Ming-oi'
Site, 1187.
Muhammadan remains between Old and
New Ak-su, 1299.
Muhammadan tombs: near Lapchuk,
1156; near Korla, 1232 sq.; near
Uch-Turfān, 1300. See also 'Gumbaz'.
Muhammadanism in Wakhan, 65.
Mul-khō, pool, locality, 1334.
Mukuta: in frescoes, 173, 179, 183, 185,
188, 1170; in painted panel, 185.
Mul-khō, valley, 43.
mulberry-trees, 212 sq., 222, 238, 240,
404. See also Broussonetia papyrifera.
mulberry wood: stick of, 268; carved
pieces, 383.
mules, in painting, 951; mentioned in
Tibetan docs., 1465.
Mullāh Khwāja, of Domoko: burrowings
at Khādālik, 54, 157; information
from, 155, 196, 197, 199, 201, 205 sq.,
1263.
list of objects brought by Mullāh
Khwāja and others from Khādālik,
167 sqq.; Chinese coins supplied by,
1343; MS. remains brought by,
1432 sq., &c.
Mullāh Shāh, Lop hunter and guide,
311, 351 sq., 362, 393, 431, 567;
rediscovers Lop desert route, 565.
Müller, Prof. F. W. K., help given by,
xviii, 920.
multiplication table, in Limes doc., 592,
764.
Munjakhe, ruined site near Kelpān, 1305.
Munjān, hill tract: speech of, identical
with Yidghah, 27; settlers from, use
Ghālchah dialect, 27.
mural decoration, see wall-paintings.
Murtuk: Lokayāta figures at, 871 b. 5;
Vajrapāṇi figure at, 876 n. 47.
Mūsā Bēg, of Charchan, 301 sq.
Mūsā Ḥājī, from Tarzem, 1232.
muscle (?), dried, 434.