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2. Upper part of north torana, Sand, with a cauri-bearing Yaksa ; showing- also 



a symbol (often but wrongly styled vardhamana). There was originally 

 a Buddha triad consisting of a Dhamnacakka between two Yaksas. First 

 half of first century B. C. Photograph by Johnston and Hoffmann. 



Plate ii 



1,2. Front and rear views of a dryad bracket (Vrksaka and mango-tree) east 

 torana, Sanci ; first half of first century B. C. Photographs by the author. 



3. Dryad (Yaks! or Vrksaka) putting on an earring; with banyan (?) tree. 



Framed in a " caitya-window " niche. Amaravati, second century A. D. or 

 earlier. British Mfiseum? India Office photograph. 



4. Yaksa bearing a garland, from rail-coping, Amaravati, second century A. D. 



British Museum? India Office photograph. 



Plate 12 



1. Kusapadalamanava Jataka, with the Yaksi Assamukhi. Railing medallion 



from Pataliputra, early second century B. C, now in the Indian Museum, 

 Calcutta. There are similar medallions at Sanci (Stupa II) and 

 Bodhgaya. Indian Museum photograph. 



2. Yaksa (?) with bell (cf. fig. 29, right). Terracotta, about first century 



A. D. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. M. F. A. photograph. 



3. Yaksa (?) : held by the right arm, not seen in the photograph, is a broad 



club; thus the Yaksa might be described as mudgara-pani (cf. the Yaksa 

 Moggarapani, supra). Terracotta, Maurya or earlier? Museum of Fine 

 Arts, Boston. M. F. A. photograph. 



4. Yaksa (?) holding a ram; perhaps a bucolic divinity, a kind of Ksetrapala. 



Terracotta, from Ujjain, probably Kusana, first or second century A. D. 

 Author's collection. M. F. A. photograph. 



Plate 13 



1. Yaksas (Guhyas) as Atlantes, Bharhut, Ca. 175 B. C. Indian Museum, 



Calcutta. India Office photograph. 



2. Winged Yaksas (Guhyas) as Atlantes; from a railing pillar at Bodhgaya, 



about 100 B. C. Photograph by Johnston and Hoffmann. 



3. Yaksas as Atlantes, Graeco-Buddhist, from Jamalgarhi. One is winged, and 



provided with a bell. In Lahore Museum. India Office photograph. 



Plate 14 



I. Bacchanalian Kuvcra, Kusana, late second century A. D. From Mathura, in 

 the Mathura Museum. A. S. photograph. 



2. Yaksi or Vrksaka (so-called river-goddess Ganges) originally one of a pair 

 from a doorway (forming the upper parts of the jambs) : vahanmn, 

 a ntakara; tree, a mango. Gupta, about 400 A. D. From Besnagar, now 

 Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. M. F. A. photograph. 



Plate 15 



I. Pancika and Hariti, the Tutelary Pair, patron deities of wealth and fertility. 

 Graeco-Buddhist, from Sahri-Bahlol, now in the Lahore Museum. 

 Early second century A. D. A. S. photograph. 



