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The Buddhist Art of Gandhara: The Story of the Early School, its Birth, Growth and Decline c3: List of Illustrations

The Buddhist Art of Gandhāra: The Story of the Early School, its Birth, Growth and Decline c3

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List of Illustrations

c3.1

*The Plates are bound together between pp. 112 and 113*

c3.2

| Figure | | Page reference |
| 1 | Symbol of the Three Jewels, attended by a guardian *yaksha* Sāñchī, Great Stūpa, North Gateway | 9 |
| 2 | *Yaksha* sprites (*kumbhaṇḍas*) spouting forth the lotus Sāñchī, Great Stūpa, South Gateway | 10 |
| 3 | Queen Māyā on lotus, symbol of the divine Birth of the Buddha Sāñchī, Great Stūpa, East Gateway | 10 |
| 4*a* | Bodhi-tree and throne, symbolizing the Illumination Sāñchī, Stūpa 3, Gateway | 10 |
| *b* | Wheel of the Law, symbolizing the First Sermon Sāñchī, Stūpa 3, Gateway | 10 |
| 5 | Adoration of a stūpa, symbolizing the Death of the Buddha Sāñchī, Great Stūpa, West Gateway | 10 |
| 6 | The latter part of the Viśvantara Jātaka Sāñchī, Great Stūpa, North Gateway | 11 |
| 7 | Assault and defeat of Māra Sāñchī, Great Stūpa, West Gateway | 11 |
| 8 | Procession of King Śuddhodana to meet his son on his return to Kapilavastu Sāñchī, Great Stūpa, East Gateway | 12 |
| 9 | Three of the six inferior heavens (*kāmāvacara*) Sāñchī, Great Stūpa, East Gateway | 13 |
| 10*a* | The Śyāma Jātaka Sāñchī, Great Stūpa, West Gateway | 13 |
| *b* | The Nāga-rāja Mucilinda Sāñchī, Great Stūpa, West Gateway | 14 |
| 11 | A scene of pleasure among the rocks Sāñchī, Great Stūpa, North Gateway | 14 |
| 12 | Dwarf Atlants (*kumbhaṇḍas*) Sāñchī, Great Stūpa, West Gateway | 15 |
| 13 | Toilet-tray with pair of lovers Taxila, Sirkap. National Museum of Pakistan, Karachi | 17 |
| 14 | Toilet-tray with drinking-scene Taxila, Sirkap. National Museum of Pakistan, Karachi | 18 |
| 15 | Toilet-tray with hippocamp and rider Taxila, Sirkap. Taxila Museum | 18 |
| 16 | Toilet-tray with crowded drinking-scene Taxila, Sirkap. National Museum, New Delhi | 18 |
| 17 | Toilet-tray with sea-monster, ridden by half-draped female with baby Taxila, Sirkap. Taxila Museum | 19 |

c3.3

| Figure | | Page reference |
| 18 | Toilet-tray with Aphrodite and winged Erotes Narai, Peshāwar District. Formerly L. W. Jardine Collection | 19 |
| 19 | Female statuette Taxila, Sirkap. National Museum of Pakistan, Karachi | 20 |
| 20 | Female statuette Taxila, Sirkap. National Museum of Pakistan, Karachi | 20 |
| 21 | Bracket in form of a winged *deva* Taxila, Sirkap. Taxila Museum | 22 |
| 22 | Inscribed bracket in form of a winged *deva* Taxila, Sirkap. Taxila Museum | 22 |
| 23 | Bracket in form of a winged *deva* Taxila, Kunāla Stūpa. Taxila Museum | 22 |
| 24 | Bracket in form of a winged *deva* Taxila, Dharmarājikā (?). British Museum | 23 |
| 25 | Bracket in form of a winged *devī* Taxila, Dharmarājikā. Taxila Museum | 23 |
| 26 | Unidentified Jātaka Taxila, Sirkap. Taxila Museum | 23 |
| 27 | Male statuette, possibly representing Sūrya, the sun-god Taxila, Sirkap. Taxila Museum | 24 |
| 28 | Image of Gautama Taxila, Dharmarājikā. Taxila Museum | 25 |
| 29 | Head of Dionysus Taxila, Sirkap. National Museum of Pakistan, Karachi | 26 |
| 30 | Statuette of Egyptian child-god Harpocrates Taxila, Sirkap. National Museum of Pakistan, Karachi | 27 |
| 31 | Female head Taxila, Sirkap. National Museum of Pakistan, Karachi | 27 |
| 32 | Head of Satyr Taxila, Sirkap. National Museum of Pakistan, Karachi | 28, 29 |
| 33-5 | Stucco heads Taxila, Sirkap. Taxila Museum | 30 |
| 36 | Stucco head Taxila, Sirkap. National Museum of Pakistan, New Delhi | 30 |
| 37 | Stucco head Taxila, Sirkap. Taxila Museum | 30 |
| 38 | Head of Bodhisattva Taxila, Sirkap. Taxila Museum | 31 |
| 39 | Head of colossal Bodhisattva Taxila, Sirkap. Taxila Museum | 30-1 |
| 40 | Drinking-party of nine figures Swāt (?). Peshāwar Museum | 33 |

c3.4

| *Figure* | | *Page reference* |
| 41 | Presentation of the Bride to Siddhārtha Takht-i-Bahi. British Museum | 34 |
| 42 | Silver Parthian goblet Taxila, Sirkap. Taxila Museum | 34 |
| 43-4 | Reliefs Peshāwar Museum | 34-6 |
| 45 | Relief Peshāwar Museum | 34-6 |
| 46 | Relief Peshāwar Museum | 34-6 |
| 47 | Sea or river deities British Museum | 36 |
| 48 | Triton in triangular panel British Museum | 37 |
| 49 | Family drinking-scene of five figures Haḍḍa. Musée Guimet, Paris | 38 |
| 50 | Family drinking-scene Haḍḍa. Kābul Museum | 38 |
| 51 | Drinking-scene of two couples, carved on lion-footed pedestal Lahore Museum | 39 |
| 52 | Crouching Atlant Lahore Museum | 39 |
| 53 | Gift of the Jetavana Garden Peshāwar Museum | 41 |
| 54 | The Interpretation of Māyā's dream Peshāwar Museum | 42 |
| 55 | The Seven Steps of the Infant Buddha Peshāwar Museum | 42 |
| 56 | Duplicate of Fig. 54 | 42 |
| 57 | Duplicate of Fig. 55 | 42 |
| 58 | Bath of the Infant Buddha Peshāwar Museum | 44 |
| 59 | The First Sermon Loriyān Tangai. Calcutta Museum | 45 |
| 60 | Deva Taxila, Dharmarājikā. Taxila Museum | 46 |
| 61 | The gift of the bundle of grass Peshāwar Museum | 46 |
| 62 | Adoration of the Bodhisattva's head-dress in the Trayastriṃśa Heaven Peshāwar Museum | 46 |
| 63 | The Buddha and Vajrapāṇi Berlin Museum | 47 |

c3.5

| Figure | | Page reference |
| 64 | Female guard, with shield and spear Peshāwar Museum | 47 |
| 65 | Musician playing on lute Swāt. Peshāwar Museum | 47 |
| 66 | The Buddha and a Brāhman ascetic Peshāwar Museum | 47 |
| 67 | The attack of Māra Peshāwar Museum | 47 |
| 68 | Mahāparinirvāṇa of the Buddha Peshāwar Museum | 49 |
| 69 | Submission of the Nāga Apalāla Sanghao. Bombay Museum | 51 |
| 70 | The Worship of the Three Jewels Nathu. Calcutta Museum | 52 |
| 71 | Gautama and the Brāhman ascetics Rhode, near Sanghao. Lahore Museum | 53 |
| 72 | Mahāparinirvāṇa of the Buddha Nathu. Lahore Museum | 54 |
| 73 | Dīpaṅkara Jātaka Sikri. Lahore Museum | 56 |
| 74 | The Bodhisattva in the Tushita heaven Sikri. Lahore Museum | 57 |
| 75 | The Buddha and the Nāga-rāja Kālika Sikri. Lahore Museum | 57 |
| 76 | The Buddha and the grass-cutter Svastika Sikri. Lahore Museum | 57 |
| 77 | Presentation of the four begging-bowls Sikri. Lahore Museum | 58 |
| 78 | Yaksha with grape-vine scroll Peshāwar Museum | 58 |
| 79 | Door-jamb with empanelled figures Taxila, Dharmarājikā. Taxila Museum | 59 |
| 80 | Fragment of a frieze with busts of celestials beneath arches Taxila, Dharmarājikā. Taxila Museum | 59 |
| 81 | Fragment of a frieze, decorated with intertwined vine stems Taxila, Dharmarājikā. Taxila Museum | 59 |
| 82 | Nāga-rāja with musicians and attendants Kāfir-kot. British Museum | 60 |
| 83 | Drinking-scene of Nāga-rāja and queen Kāfir-kot. British Museum | 60 |
| 84 | The starving Bodhisattva Jamāl-Garhi. British Museum | 60 |

c3.6

| Figure | | Page reference |
| 85-6 | Cult statues of the Buddha Lahore Museum | 61 |
| 87 | Mahāparinirvāṇa of the Buddha Nathu. Calcutta Museum | 68 |
| 88 | Presentation to the Buddha of a mango grove by the courtesan Āmrapālī Nathu. Calcutta Museum | 69 |
| 89 | Yakṣī standing beneath a śāla tree Nathu. Calcutta Museum | 70 |
| 90 | Fragment showing portions of five figures Loriyān Tangai. Calcutta Museum | 71 |
| 91 | Base ornamented with garland and Erotes Nathu. Calcutta Museum | 71 |
| 92 | Sleep of the women Takht-i-Bahl. British Museum | 72 |
| 93 | Fragment from a scene of the Sleeping Women Taxila, Dharmarājikā. Taxila Museum | 73 |
| 94 | Māyā’s dream Taxila, Kalawān. National Museum, New Delhi | 74 |
| 95 | The child Bodhisattva going to school in a ram-cart Chārsada Tehsil. Victoria and Albert Museum, London | 75 |
| 96 | The Buddha in unidentified scene Palātu-Dherī. Peshāwar Museum | 76 |
| 97 | Adoration of a stūpa Swāt. British Museum | 76 |
| 98 | The Buddha enthroned with Vajrapāṇi and seven female devotees Taxila, Dharmarājikā. Taxila Museum | 77 |
| 99 | Birth of the Buddha Peshāwar Museum | 77 |
| 100 | Miracle at Śrāvastī Taxila, Dharmarājikā. Taxila Museum | 78 |
| 101 | The Buddha under pipal canopy Taxila, Dharmarājikā. Taxila Museum | 79 |
| 102 | Entreaty of the gods in the Tushita heaven Taxila, Dharmarājikā. Taxila Museum | 79 |
| 103 | Part of a stele Jamāl-Garhī. Calcutta Museum | 80 |
| 104 | Birth of Chandaka and Kaṇṭhaka Jamāl-Garhī. Calcutta Museum | 80 |
| 105 | Wrestling match Jamāl-Garhī. Calcutta Museum | 80 |
| 106 | Śyāma Jātaka. Taxila, Dharmarājikā. Taxila Museum | 81 |

c3.7

| Figure | | Page reference |
| 107 | Visit of Indra to the Buddha Taxila, Giri. Taxila Museum | 82 |
| 108 | A yaksha Atlant Jamāl-Garhī. Calcutta Museum | 82 |
| 109 | Head of the Buddha Taxila, Moḥrā Morādu. Taxila Museum | 83-4 |
| 110 | The Buddha Lahore Museum | 83-4 |
| 111 | The Buddha Taxila, Dharmarājikā. Taxila Museum | 83-4 |
| 112 | Hārītī Takht-i-Bahī. Peshāwar Museum | 84 |
| 113 | Miracle of the black snake at Rājagṛiha Rāṇigat (?). Lahore Museum | 85 |
| 114 | The Bodhisattva's Flight from the City Lahore Museum | 86 |
| 115 | Miracles at Śrāvastī and Uruvilvā Jamāl-Garhī. Calcutta Museum | 87 |
| 116 | Three scenes from the story of Nanda Jamāl-Garhī. Calcutta Museum | 89 |
| 117 | The First Sermon Loriyān Tangai. Calcutta Museum | 90 |
| 118 | Visit of Indra to the Buddha Loriyān Tangai. Calcutta Museum | 91 |
| 119 | Flight of the Bodhisattva from Kapilavastu Loriyān Tangai. Calcutta Museum | 92 |
| 120 | Visit of Indra to the Buddha Mamāne-Dherī. Peshāwar Museum | 92 |
| 121 | Conversion of Nanda. The enticement scene Haḍḍa. British Museum | 94 |
| 122 | Miracle of Śrāvastī Loriyān Tangai. Calcutta Museum | 94 |
| 123 | Miracle of Śrāvastī Muhammad Nāri. Lahore Museum | 95 |
| 124 | Miracle of Śrāvastī Sahri-Bahlol. Peshāwar Museum | 96 |
| 125 | Miracle of Śrāvastī Sahri-Bahlol. Peshāwar Museum | 96 |
| 126 | Ornamental canopy Sahri-Bahlol. Peshāwar Museum | 96 |
| 127-8 | The death of the Buddha Swāt. Calcutta Museum | 97-8 |
| 129 | The death of the Buddha Takht-i-Bahī. British Museum | 98 |

c3.8

| Figure | | Page reference |
| 130 | Viśvantara Jātaka British Museum | 99 |
| 131 | The Buddha, standing in *abhaya-mudrā* Lahore Museum | 100 |
| 132 | Standing image of the Buddha Formerly Guides' Mess, Mardān | 101 |
| 133 | The Buddha and the Kāśyapas Sahrī-Bahlol. Peshāwar Museum | 101 |
| 134 | Standing image of the Buddha Mamāne-Dherī. Peshāwar Museum | 102 |
| 135-6 | Seated image of the Buddha in *dhyāna-mudrā* Takht-i-Bahī, and Sahrī-Bahlol. Peshāwar Museum | 102 |
| 137 | Bodhisattva Maitreya Taxila, Mohṛā Morādu. Taxila Museum | 102 |
| 138 | Bust of Bodhisattva Peshāwar Museum | 102 |
| 139 | Standing image of Bodhisattva Maitreya Sahrī-Bahlol. Peshāwar Museum | 103 |
| 140 | Bodhisattva Maitreya Lahore Museum | 103 |
| 141 | Bodhisattva Siddhārtha meditating at the Ploughing Festival Sahrī-Bahlol. Peshāwar Museum | 103 |
| 142 | Bodhisattva Maitreya Nathu. Calcutta Museum | 104 |
| 143 | Seated image of Pāñcika Tahkal. Lahore Museum | 104 |
| 144 | Pāñcika and Hāritī Sahrī-Bahlol. Peshāwar Museum | 104-5 |
| 145 | Atlant Kālī-Ghund Peshāwar Museum | 106 |
| 146 | Atlant Jamāl-Garhī. Calcutta Museum | 106 |
| 147 | Corinthian capital Jamāl-Garhī. Calcutta Museum | 106 |
| 148 | Frieze of garland and amorini Taxila, Kalawān. National Museum of Pakistan, Karachi | 106 |
| 149 | Door-jamb Taxila, Dharmarājikā. Taxila Museum | 107 |
| 150 | Panel with two scenes Afrido-Dherī (?). Peshāwar Museum | 107 |
| 151 | The Grand Miracle of Śrāvastī Peshāwar Museum | 108 |
| 152 | Terracotta head of Bodhisattva Taxila, Kalawān. National Museum of Pakistan, Karachi | 112 |