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Sida 96 - Chinese also formed a set of twelve zodiacal signs, which they named the Mouse, the Cow, the Tiger, the Hare, the Dragon, the Serpent, the Horse, the Sheep, the Monkey, the Cock, the Dog, and the Pig.
Sida 44 - Huan again began to make them. He fashioned a contrivance of rings which could revolve in all the four directions, so that the body of the burner remained constantly level and could be placed among bedclothes and cushions.
Sida 136 - born of the water-born," *. e., of the lotus. Except in the case of the lotus medallions, representing the upper surface of a single flower, it is the whole lotus plant that is generally represented in art. This whole plant, in Nature, consists of a rhizome, with nodes at regular intervals, each node provided with small scale leaves and rootlets, and giving rise to numerous larger leaves and flowers which rise to the surface of the water ; in other words, there is a creeping submerged root-like...
Sida 137 - Nature, consists of a rhizome, with nodes at regular intervals, each node provided with small scale leaves and rootlets, and giving rise to numerous larger leaves and flowers which rise to the surface of the water ; in other words, there is a creeping submerged root-like stem which throws off flowers and leaves at intervals, but there is no branching stem, and the stalk of each flower or leaf rises directly from the rhizome. Bearing these facts in mind, it is easy to recognize in the ordinary lotus...
Sida 136 - Cosmology, the Plants, whose virility and healing powers are so much stressed in the literature, are almost invariably represented by the lotus, no doubt because of its directly evident origin in the Waters. So, too, the lotus represents the Tree of Life; this cosmic tree which sprang originally from the navel of Varuna, bearing the deities within its branches (presumably thought of as those of an actual tree), when later it is represented (in the Mahabharata and in late Gupta and early medieval...
Sida 20 - This, however, was a genuinely Indian art, whose leading features may be summed up by defining it as a tropically naturalistic school, subdued, refined, and spiritualized by Buddhist idealism (see Volume II, pp.
Sida 131 - ... kind. . . . Note: Illustrations of Konarak will be found in most books on Indian art, though it is badly under-represented in what is perhaps the best-known of them, Stella Kramrisch's The Art of India through the Ages (Phaidon Press, London, 1954). The balance is to some extent redressed in Benjamin Rowland, The Art and Architecture of India (Pelican History of Art, 1953). But, apart from Indian publications, by far the finest selection of photographs and by far the most useful text is Heinrich...
Sida 7 - ... planning ; while, in the workshops, they were employed as skilled craftsmen, working in wood, metal, textiles and ceramics, and very largely responsible both for design and for execution. When, in the eighth and ninth centuries, it was decided to cut down the number of slaves in the imperial service, many were disposed of in the market, where they commanded high prices. The palace-slaves were especially esteemed, not only for the quality of their work and for their general bearing, but also for...
Sida 51 - Yung» cheu take measures all around against such extravagance , and » do you yourself severely counteract them , lest they be indulged » in again' " *. It deserves notice that Kao Tsung's mother, the empress Wen-teh 3, had ordained during her life »not to be buried
Sida 240 - ritual cauldron' and 'knife'. The law was codified by inscriptions on ritual vessels. In the modern graph 'cauldron' has been corrupted into 'cowry'.