A History of Fine Art in India and Ceylon, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day c23.79

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Labarum, symbol, 122. Laccadive islands, 223. Ladies, portraits of, 478 note. Lahore, tile-pictures on Fort, 444; Wazīr Khān's mosque at, 445, 446; square tiles from, 447-9. Laila and Majnūn, romance of, 484. Lāl, artist, 470. Lalitāditya, king of Kashmīr, 45, 305, 306. *Lalita Vistara*, scenes from, 261, 267. Lamaism, yellow, 200. Lamas, devil-dances of, 122, 318; portrait statuettes of, 198; as artists, 315; pictures of, 318-20. Landscape in Chinese and Indian art, 450, 496. Lankārāma *dāgaba* at Anurādhapura, 52, 54. Laos States, Indian emigration to, 260. Lapis lazuli, pigment, 279, 301, 462. Lāta = Gujarāt, *q. v.*, 260 note. Lattices, Hindu, 432; Muhammadan, 432-7. Lauriya-Nandangarh, Asoka pillar at, 20, 59, 62. Le Bon, M., on Indian art, 7, 12. Le Coq, Dr. v., explorations of, 307, 308, 313, 314. Leitner, Dr., on Graeco-Buddhist sculpture, 97. Leochares, Ganymede group of, 117, 118. Lhasa, images made at, 198. Libraries, imperial, &c., 456, 457. Line, in Asiatic art, 466, 468, 494. Lion, symbolical meaning of, 60, 95; in Oriental art, 78; at Amarāvatī, 153. Lithang, bronzes from, 198. Lokanātha = Avalokitesvara, *q. v.*, 185. Lomas Rishi cave, 20. Lorenzetti, Ambrogio, fresco by, 292. Loriyān Tangai, sculptures from monastery at, 108, 127. Lotan (Lattan) mosque at Gaur, 442. Lotus, at Amarāvatī, 152-4; in Indian art generally, 388, 389. Lucknow, clay statuettes from, 374, 376; buildings at, 419. Lumbinī garden = Rummindēī, *q. v.*, 60, 120.