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LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

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An Indian Woman with her Jewels 77

Hindu Women 79

Suttee, or Widow-burning, in Ancient Times 81

Indian Musical Instruments 83

Children near a Ruined Shrine in the Bombay Presidency 85

An Indian Woman with a Characteristic Necklace 87

The Rama Ghat at Ayodhya 90

A Betel-box 93

A Group of Child Widows 96

A Pillar of the Gupta Age 99

A Type of Brahman Woman 101

The Moat and Ramparts at Tanjore 105

An Old Picture of a Widow Preparing to be Burned with her Husband 109

A Scene at the Village Well 111

The Sacred Waters of the Ganges 113

A Modern Burning-ghat at Calcutta 115

An Old Buddhist Sculpture from the Bharahat Stupa 121

A Scene in the Tista Valley 123

An Indian Picture showing the Signs of the Zodiac 128

A Gandhara Sculpture, apparently portraying the Bathing of the Infant Buddha 130

A Fakir 133

An Aged Musician with a Gourd-lyre 135

A Gateway of the Buddhist Stupa at Sanchi 138

A Chinese Buddhist Monastery 140

The Buddhist Tope at Sarnath near Benares 143

A Gandhara Sculpture of Buddha 144

Paraphernalia for a Chinese Buddhist Ritual Observance 147

An Indian Representation of Buddha 149

An Indian Pot 153

The God Brahma 157

The God Krishna, or Vasudeva 159

A Hindu Cave Temple at Ellora 161

The Golden Temple and Lake Amritsar 163

A Buddhist Funeral Urn 164

Ruins at Ujjain, said to have been the Native Town of Varahamihira 166

The Torments of Hell 170

A Group of Women and Children in the Shade of Palm-trees 173

An Inscribed Buddhist Sculpture from Hashtnagar, Dated 384 A.D. 176

The Martanda Temple of the Sun in Kashmir 178

The God Skanda, also called Kartikeya 180

Ruins of a Temple to Hanuman, Rama's Ally, in Southern India 183

A Zoroastrian Dakhmah, or Tower of Silence 187