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Part of an illustrated Chinese Ms. book.
Date
800 to 899
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height 13.5 centimetres, width 14.5 centimetres
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Scope and content : Ch. xxii. 0026. Part of illustrated Chin. MS. book, beginning with representations of the Four Lokapālas; cf. Ch. xviii. 002. Ten leaves remain. First shows on outside remains of purple and green silk, and formed cover; inside, painted figs. of two Lokapālas standing. Second has on obv. one l. Chin., on rev. two remaining Lokapālas. Third shows on obv. 4 ll. Chin. in black and one isolated char. in red; on rev. 9 ll. text with gloss. Remaining leaves contain continuation of text, well written in black with red punctuation, 8–9 ll. on each side of page, text consisting of passages from various Sūtras.
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DHMG.
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Ch.xxii.0026
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Short description : Mogao Caves near Dunhuang
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