1892.] L. A. Waddell— Buddhist Pictorial Wheel of Life. 
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The Ajanta 
ac.’ 
Zodi- 
battles, but at the same time represses their fighting propensities. 
(3) In the human world as Shaky a Ser-po or ‘ the Golden S'akya Muni ’ 
holding an alarm stick and begging bowl he preaches salvation to men. 
(4) In the world of the beasts as Senge-rab-rtan mthing-ga or 4 the Indigo 
coloured highest supported Lion,’ holding a book he preaches the six 
syllables. (5) In the world of the Yidags as Kha-hbar dmar-po or 
‘ the Red Burned Mouth, holding a cowrie-shaped box, he preaches the 
six syllables. (6) In hell as Ghhos-rgyal nag-po or the Black King of 
Religion, holding water and fire he preaches the six syllables. 
It is possible that this introduction of Chenresi into each of the 
six worlds and his identification also with the Judge of the Bead was 
the invention of the great Priest-King, Lama Kgag-wang Lo-zang, with 
the view of increasing his own and successors’ prestige as the human 
incarnation of Chenresi (Avalokita), the Judge of the Bead and the 
Regent of each of the worlds of Existence. 
We are now in a position to examine the mutilated fragment of the 
Indian picture—the so-called ‘ Zodiac ’—in the 
Ajanta cave. When Mr. Ralph visited this 
cave in 1828,* only about a third apparently 
was then wanting. In 1879 Mr. Burgess notes that only £ a mere frag¬ 
ment now remains,’f and it is the photograph of this fragment which is 
the only illustration now extant ; and as this photograph has not been 
published and it is essential for comparison with tlie Tibetan form of 
the picture it is here re-produced vide plate VII. 
This Ajanta picture it will be at once remarked differs from that 
above described, mainly in is realistic details 
being restricted to different phases of human 
and animal life. 
The monster who holds the disc has, as in the Tibetan picture, gripped 
it with his tusks ; but his hands have not seized 
it with such firmness, and he wears bracelets 
and other ornaments—in some of the Tibetan pictures he is also re¬ 
presented with ornaments. Burgess notes,]; that the arms of this 
monster are green. It is probable that originally brown pigment has 
become thus changed, by oxidation or otherwise, during the lapse of 
centuries, as in Tibet the monster who holds the disc is always painted 
brown. 
In the centre of the disc are no symbolized orginal sins ; but the 
snake which is oue of this triad is figured 
outside and to the left of the disc holding 
Its details. 
Its monster-holder. 
The external snake. 
* B. A. S. J., 1836. 
f The Bauddha Bock-Temples ef Ajanta , 1879, p. 62. 
% Op. cit., p. 62. 
