The Beginnings of Buddhist Art and Other Essays in Indian and Central-Asian Archaeology c13.50

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c13.50

Siṃhāsana, Bodhi represented by, 148 n. 2. — Buddha represented by, 19. — figured 168 (Western India), 176, xxxvii (Boro-Budur). — formed of superposed animals xxi (Ajaṇṭā). Sītā represented as sister of Rāma 45. Sivalī, story of, 52. Slab, rectangular, figured 93 (Sāñchī). Sleeves of tunic xlvii (Gandhāra). Smallpox, Deity of. see Hāritī. — infants protected by amulet against, 122. Sophocles, Lateran, and figures of Christ and Buddha, 136, xvi. Speyer, J. S., Maitrakanyaka-avadāna at Boro-Budur explained by, 215, 243-4. Spoon, sacrificial, figured 98 (Sāñchī). Spooner, D. B., Buddhist punch-marked coins tabulated and discussed by, 14, 21 n. 2. — excavations at Sahri-Bahlol by, xiii, xiv, xlviii. — Kanishka stūpa explored by, 129. Stag, Buddha’s birth as. See Ruru-jātaka. Staff of mendicant figured xix (Sārnāth). Standard-bearer figured on capitals of gate 86 (Sāñchī). Stein, M. A., excavations in Chinese Turkestan by, 285. — Hāritī painting discovered and described by, 285-6. — photograph communicated by, xlv. Stele from Sārnāth. See Essay VI. Stool figured 144 (Gaul and India), 164 n. 1 (Ajaṇṭā), 272-3 (Central Asia). Stūpa, Açoka form of, 13. — coins marked with, 14. — figured 15, 89, 90, 98 n. 1 (Sāñchī), 237-239 (Boro-Budur), iv-xix (Amarāvatī), xix (Sārnāth). — gate of. See Toraṇa. — origin and parts of, 33. — prominence of, in Buddhist architecture 10. — structure of, 33-4. — symbolizing Parinirvāṇa 18, 73, 104 (of seven last Buddhas), (Sāñchī), i, ii, 178 (Barhut). Stūpa. See also Amarāvatī, Barhut, Boro-Budur, Sāñchī. Subhadra, conversion of, figured iv (Gandhāra). Sudhana-Kumāra figured xxxv (Boro-Budur). — legend of, 217-224. Sundarī, assassination of, 183. Sūtrālaṅkāra, chapters in, the number of, 200. — fragment of the, discovered 207. — Shaḍdanta-jātaka in the, 188, 194-5, 196, 198, 199, 200. — Twin Miracle according to the, 155. Swan, as decoration 85 (Sāñchī) xv. — Buddha’s birth as. See Haṃsa-jātaka. Swāt River, Nāga of, converted by Buddha 122. Symbols 14 (on coins), 69 (Sāñchī).