Indian Art: A History of Indian Art from the Earliest Times up to the Third Century A.D. c20.13
Indian Art: A History of Indian Art from the Earliest Times up to the Third Century A.D. c20.13
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*budbudākāra*, bubble shaped 64 Buddha 6, his story in stone and colour his life scenes 6, 126, 152-3, 272-3, 281, 287, 289 descent from Tushita heaven, dream of Māyā, oblique birth, seven steps, first bath, taming of Nalagiri, miracle of fire and water, ascent to heaven of thirtythree gods, three ladders of gold, silver and copper, vision of thousand Buddhas, presentation of four cups, etc. his previous lives, *Jātaka* represented by symbols 236 symbolic representation of his life 152-3 metaphysical pattern of his life 6 as Mahāpurusha 54 as yogī 121 as Chakravartī 121 his image, 236 ff on coins 236, 238, 241-2, on *paṭa* 282, 285, 288, 289, 292 its origin, at Mathura 217, 235-44, 271-2 in Gandhara 271-2 *Buddhapada* 281 *Buddhapaṭa* 282, 285, 288, 289, 292 Buddhism 119, 278 Buddhist legend 288 buffalo 36 building of a Stūpa 124-6 *bujhā*, quartzite 8 bull 25, 36, 46 burial mounds, at Lauriā Nandangarh 75, 76-7, 119 —pottery 27-8 carnelian (= *tamḍā*) 29 carpenter 57 casket 82 chaitya, see under Architecture Chaityakas, a Buddhist sect 278, 284, 285 chakbhaurān, spiral 74 chakkalikā 65 chakra, wheel 41, 46, 51-2, 54, 90, 255, 320 —as arch symbol for Buddha 121 —Tryadhvā chakra 121 —dvyara, pañchāra, shaḍara, sahasrāra 52 —as Dharma 121 —Dharma-chakra 52 —Brahma-chakra, Bhavachakra or Saṃsāra-chakra, Kālachakra, Jīvanachakra 51 —Vṛittachakra of Viṣṇu 52 —Sudarśanachakra 52, 54 —paṭa,--paṭṭa 232, 239, 285, 289, 292, 300 —dhvaja Chakavāka Nāgarāja 132 Chakravartī, Sovereign 58. 191-2, 239, 289 Māndhātā 191-2 Mahā Sudassana 58 iconography 58, 239, 242, 243, 289 chakravyūha 154, 155 chalcedony, karketana 29 chāmara 66, 121 —grāhiṇī 271 chamasa 33, 41, 46, 57 chanda, chandra, moon, half medallion 45, 48, 211 chanda-suriya,-divākara, chandāsūraj 48, 61 chandana kalaśa 223 Chandrā, a Yakṣī at Bharhut 132 Chandraśekhara, Śiva 6 charaṇa, academy of learning 56, 57 chariot (ratha) 41; cartwright, rathakāra 41, 57 charioteer 58 charu 33, 41, 46 chashāla 34, 40 chatasraḥ pradiśaḥ, four directions of space 47 Chātudisa Saṃgha 298