The Beginnings of Buddhist Art and Other Essays in Indian and Central-Asian Archaeology c11.s1.18

c11.s1.18

5. (L., 10). The following picture transports us to the Himâlaya mountains. On the right we perceive the lean ascetic figure of the old anchorite whose thoughtless chatter has guided the arm of the hunter Halaka. The latter, who is in a squatting posture, holds the *Kinnari* Manoharâ imprisoned at the end of his infallible lasso, while the companions of the latter, likewise represented in human form, rush towards the left in their aerial flight over a pond of lotuses.