Tree and serpent worship, or, Illustrations of mythology and art in India in the first and fourth centuries after Christ : from the sculptures of the Buddhist topes at Sanchi and Amravati (1868)

Fergusson, James, 1808-1886, Waterhouse, James S., 1842-1922, photographer, Griggs, William, 1832-1911, lithographer, photographer, Great Britain. India Office, W.H. Allen & Co., publisher, Eyre & Spottiswoode, printer · London : India Museum : Wm. H. Allen and Co., 13, Waterloo Place, S.W., publishers to the India Office · leaf 70

An illustration from Tree and serpent worship, or, Illustrations of mythology and art in India in the first and fourth centuries after Christ : from the sculptures of the Buddhist topes at Sanchi and Amravati, 1868, leaf 70 — CHINA.— OCEANIA. 53 surrounded by canvas screens. The furniture consists of an altar and four lighted candles. Seven tables, or stands, are laden with cakes (shewbread), and as many with fruits ; and seven lamps take the place of the seven-branched candlestick. There are four woodcuts representing… … B.C. and the tliirteenth a.d., we find serpent hoods ranging from three to seven heads, but never the human body terminating in a serpent Naga, from Chinese sutka. dowuward, tiU after the last quoted date. Although all this may have been derived from India, and in its present form probably was so,…

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