LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. HE illustrations are taken, for the most part, from photographs THE of Buddhist sculptures and frescoes found in ancient ruins of India, averaging 2000 years old, many of them being identified by eminent archæological authorities, both in India and at home, as actually illustrating scenes in the Life of Gautama Buddha, the founder of Buddhism, and the hero of Mr. Arnold's poem. The character of the illustrations will be fully appreciated only by those who have thoroughly entered into the spirit of the poem, and who therefore know how to interpret them philosophically as well as artistically. Nevertheless, these engravings cannot fail, it is believed, to interest the general public, as revealing an antique school of art, unfamiliar indeed, yet for the most part full of spirit and beauty. "I will depart," he spake," the hour is come' Frontispiece From a sculpture (now in the Lahore Museum) found in the ruins of a great Buddhist monastery, which once occupied the hill above Jemal-garhi (Yuzufzai). Engraved from a photograph lent by James Fergusson, Esq., D.C.L., F.R.S., &c. HEAD OF BUDDHA Titlepage From a sculpture found in Gandhāra (Yuzufzai). Now in the Calcutta Museum. The photograph from which the above head was engraved was furnished by Sir George Birdwood, who also has lent photographs from which nearly all the illustrations based on the sculptures found in the Yuzufzai district have been engraved. From a sculpture found in the Buddhist Tope at Amravati, and now in the Indian Museum at Calcutta. See Anderson's Archæo- logical Catalogue of the Calcutta Museum, part 1. page 196, and Fergusson's Tree and Serpent Worship (1873), page 213. This in- cident is fully described on page 36 of Beals' "Romantic History of From a sculpture found in the Buddhist Tope at Amravati, now in the Indian Museum at Calcutta. See Anderson's Catalogue, part 1. From a sculpture, now in the Lahore Museum, found in the ruins. of a great Buddhist monastery, which once occupied the hill above PAGE From a sculpture found in the Stupa of Bharhut. See General Cunningham's Work, plate 34. "A woman- dove-eyed, young, with tearful face And lifted hands — saluted, bending low" From the sculptures found at Gandhāra (Yuzufzai).' "Whereon I came Trembling to thee, whose brow is like a god's, PAGE 124 And wept and drew the face-cloth from my babe". 125 From the sculptures found at Gāndhāra (Yuzufzai). BOOK VI. "So, thinking him divine, - Sujata drew Tremblingly nigh" 148 From the sculptures found at Gāndhāra (Yuzufzai). From a sculpture in the Stupa of Bharhut. See Cunningham's Stupa of Bharhut. "This is the Night the ages waited for" 157 From the Cave Temples at Ajanta. See Fergusson's and Burgess's Cave Temples of India, plate 51. MARA AND HIS DAUGHTERS . 161 From the Cave Temples at Ajanta. See Fergusson's and Burgess's Cave Temples of India. plate 51. |