A History of Fine Art in India and Ceylon, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day c13.s6.80

c13.s6.80

¹ Coomaraswamy, 'Mahāyāna Buddhist Images from Ceylon and Java,' *J. R. A. S.*, 1909, p. 288. That valuable article, and another entitled 'Indian Bronzes' in *Burlington Magazine*, May, 1910, discuss in detail many images which cannot be noticed here. The two figured, which I have examined, are the best of those from Ceylon, and are superior to anything of the kind in the British Museum. Kuvera (= Jambhala = Vaiśravana) was chief of the Yakshas. He was specially honoured in Khotan and Chinese Turkestan generally. A manuscript from Turfan calls him 'the highest of the gods' (von Holstein, 'Tiśastvustik,' pp. 97, 122 *n.*, *Bibl. Buddhica*, No. xii, St. Pétersbourg, 1910). 'Jambhala of Ceylon' was known even in distant Nepāl (Foucher, *Iconographie bouddhique*, Pl. IX. 2).