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from the stand on which it rests. It is adorned with a raised orna- 

 mentation of the dorje and an invocation in Nepalese Sanskrit char- 

 acters, while the top of the cylinder is ornamented with a wheel and 

 the bottom with four dorjes. Tibet. (Cat. No. 130393, U.S.N. M.) 



255. Hand prayer wheel. — Bronze. The top is decorated with a 

 silver wheel, studded with coral and turquoise beads. The bottom 

 has four dorjes, and on the sides is the 6-syllable spell in Landza 

 characters in silver. Bands above and below are decorated with 

 dorjes and lotus flowers, respectively. The axis terminates in a 

 pineapple-shaped knob of silver. Tibet. (Cat. No. 130392, U.S.N.M.) 



256. Prayer wheel. — Bronze. The top is dome-shaped. The bar- 

 rel is divided into two compartments by a ridge, which is decorated 

 with coral and turquoise beads. Darjeeling (on the border of Tibet), 

 India. (Cat. No. 74494, U.S.N.M.) 



257. Prayer wheel. — Bronze. Similar to the preceding. No. 260. 

 The bottom is decorated with scroll patterns. Darjeeling, India. 

 (Cat. No. 74493, U.S.N.M.) 



258. Prayer wheel. — The barrel of bronze is divided by a band of 

 brass into two compartments, which have the invocation. Top and 

 bottom, as also the pineapple-shaped laiob on top and the bead on 

 the side, are likewise of brass. The top is in shape of a fluted dome; 

 the bottom is decorated with four dorjes, all in repouss6. Probably 

 Tibet. (Cat. No. 311794, U.S.N.M.) Bequest of Miss Elizabeth S. 

 Stevens. 



259. Prayer wheel. — Bronze. Resembling the preceding. Leh, 

 Ladak. (Cat. No. 175152, U.S.N.M.) Gift of W. L. Abbott. 



260. Prayer wheel. — Bronze. Flat top; otherwise similar to the 

 preceding. Leh, Ladak. (Cat. No. 175153, U.S^N.M.) Gift of 

 W. L. Abbott. 



261. Prayer wheel. — The barrel is of felt covered with coarse 

 woolen cloth. An iron pivot runs through the barrel and fits in a 

 roughly carved wooden handle. The cylinder is covered with a 

 piece of red cotton cloth, to the corners of which are attached glass 

 beads. Tibet. (Cat. No. 167169, U.S.N.M.) 



262. Prayer wheel. — Bronze. Height, 2}^ inches; diameter, 3 

 inches. Burma. Bequest of S. S. Rowland. 



2QZ. Prayer wheel. — Made of copper. Height, UK inches. Tibet. 

 (Cat. No. 315523, U.S.N.M.) Bequest of Alfred Louis Moreau 

 Gottschalk. 



264. Strip of Chinese paper. — On which the formula "Cm, mani 

 padme hum" is nearly four hundred times repeated in print. As 

 about 100 of such sheets can be wrapped in the cylinder, a revolution 

 of the wheel would be equivalent to repeating the formula forty 

 thousands times. Tibet. (Cat. No. 131014, U.S.N.M.) 



