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LIST OF PLATES
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page 1. Lion-capital, originally surmounted by a Wheel of the
Law (dharma-cakra), from a column erected by King Asoka at Sārnáth to commemorate the Buddha's preaching there of the First Sermon. Polished Chunär sandstone, 7 st. by 2 st. 10 in. Maurya, between 2.12 and 232 B.C. (Sārnāth Museum. Photo: Archaeological Survey of India.)
132 A Cakravartin, with the Unibrella of Dominion and the
Seven Treasures. From the ruins of a Buddhist stūpa at Jagayyapeta. Early Andhra, 2nd century B.C. (Madras Museum. Photo: India Office.)
132 III. Nāga King and Quecn, with attendant, in a rock-cut
niche outside of Cave XIX at Ajantā. Late Gupta, 6th century A.D. (Photo: Johnston and Hoffman, Calcutta.)
204 IV. Head of Gautama Buddha protected by the nāga
Mucalinda. Stone, from the vicinity of Angkor Wat, Cambodia. Khmer, with century A.D. (Courtesy of
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.) 204 V. The Jaina Tīrthankara Pārsvanātha protected by the
nāga Dharanendra. From the Kankāli Tilā, Mathurā. Mottled red sandstone, 3 ft. 4 in. by 1 ft. 101/2 in. by 8 ft. 5 in. Late ist or early and century A.D. (Lucknow
Museum. Photo: Archaeological Survey of India.) 204 Vla. The Jaina Tīrthankara Pārsvanātha with serpents
springing from his shoulders. A late work, probably from West India, 16th or 17th century A.D.
204 VIb. Dahhāk, “the tyrant of Babylon and Arabia," from whose shoulders serpents grew. Detail of an illumination
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