xii LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS PAGE An Indian Woman with her Jewels 77 Hindu Women 79 Suttee, or Widow-burning, in Ancient Times ... ... 81 Indian Musical Instruments 83 Children near a Ruined Shrine in the Bombay Presidency ... 85 An Indian Woman with a Characteristic Necklace . . . . . 87 The Rama Ghat at Ayodhya 90 A Betel-box 93 A Group of Child Widows 96 A Pillar of the Gupta Age 99 A Type of Brahman Woman 101 The Moat and Ramparts at Tanjore 105 An Old Picture of a Widow Preparing to be Burned with her Husband . 109 A Scene at the Village Well Ill The Sacred Waters of the Ganges 113 A Modern Burning-ghat at Calcutta 115 An Old Buddhist Sculpture from the Bharahat Stupa .... 121 A Scene in the Tista Valley 123 An Indian Picture showing the Signs of the Zodiac . . . . .128 A Gandhara Sculpture, apparently portraying the Bathing of the Infant Buddha 130 A Fakir 133 An Aged Musician with a Gourd-lyre 135 A Gateway of the Buddhist Stupa at Sanchi 138 A Chinese Buddhist Monastery 140 The Buddhist Tope at Sarnath near Benares 143 A Gandhara Sculpture of Buddha 144 Paraphernalia for a Chinese Buddhist Ritual Observance .... 147 An Indian Representation of Buddha 149 An Indian Pot 153 The God Brahma 157 The God Krishna, or Vasudeva . . . 159 A Hindu Cave Temple at Ellora 161 The Golden Temple and Lake Amritsar 163 A Buddhist Funeral Urn 164 Ruins at Ujjain, said to have been the Native Town of Varahamihira . 166 The Torments of Hell 170 A Group of Women and Children in the Shade of Palm-trees . . . 173 An Inscribed Buddhist Sculpture from Hashtnagar, Dated 384 A. D. . . 176 The Martanda Temple of the Sun in Kashmir 178 The God Skanda, also called Kartikeya 180 Ruins of a Temple to Hanuman, Rama's Ally, in Southern India . .183 A Zoroastrian Dakhmah, or Tower of Silence 187
