NO. 6 YAKSAS COOMARASWAMY 4I 



2. Yaksa (?) Vajrapani from Mathura. Kusana; early second century A. D.? 

 Height of the fragment, i' 9". Now E 24 in the Mathura Museum. A. S. 

 photograph. 



Plate 16 



1. Yaksa, on railing to pillar, KaiikalT Tila, Mathura. Probably first century 



A. D. 



2. Yaksa, probably Vaisravana, with flames, from the Kahkall Tlla, Mathura, 



same date. Both after Smith, Jaina stupa of Mathura. Both in the Luck- 

 now Museum. 



Plate 17 



r. Parasuramesvara lirigam (Siva), Gudimallam, about 100 B. C. For com- 

 parison with Yaksa types from Bharhut, etc. A. S. photograph. 



2. Colossal Bodhisattva (Buddha), of Mathura manufacture, set up by Friar 

 Bala at Sarnath, 123 A. D. For comparison with Yaksa types, plate i, 

 figure I, and plate 2, figure i. A. S. photograph. 



Plate 18 



1. Ganesa, with chain of bells ; from Bhumara. Gupta, about fifth century. 



A. S. photograph. 



2. Dvarapala, a Yaksa, with chain of bells. South Indian, Cola, about the tenth 



century. Property of C. T. Loo. 



Plate 19 



1. YaksT, on door-jamb at Tadpatri ; makara vahanam. The tree is now 



much conventionalized and proceeds from the makara's mouth. 

 The parrot (Kamadeva's vahanam), perched on the Yaksi's arm, is 

 a further indication that the makara in these associations is rather to be 

 connected with Kamadeva than regarded as a river-symbol. Parrots or 

 parrokeets are represented already on the shoulders of the voluptuous 

 Yaksls from the Bhutesar side in Mathura : and in the Lalita Vistara. 

 Ch. XXI, some of the apsarasas, Mara's (Kamadeva's) daughters, tempt- 

 ing the Bodhisattva, are said to have parrokeets or jays perched on their 

 heads or shoulders. Smaller Yak.sa (Guhya) Atlantes on right side 

 (cf. plate 13). A. S. photograph. 



2. Yaksi, on door jamb of the Subrahmaniya temple at Tanjore, eighteenth 



century. Makara vahanam; the tree much conventionalized; the Yaksi 

 holds a parrot and is pressing one foot against the trunk of the 

 (presumably) a.soka-tree (dohada motif). Photograph by the author. 



Plate 20 



The conception and nativity of Siddhartha. Upper right, the Dream of Maya 

 Devi (Mahamaya) (Incarnation of the Bodhisattva in the form of a 

 white elephant) ; one female attendant also sleeping, and the Four Great 

 Kings, the Lokapalas (Kubera, etc.), occupying the four corners of the 

 chamber, on guard. Upper left, The Interpretation of the Dream; Maya 

 Devi seated. King Suddhodana enthroned, two Brahman soothsayers 



