Contents of Volume 1 Editor's Note List of [lustrations List 02 Abbreviations and Short ‘/itles List of Works by A. K. Coomeraswamy Cited in These Volumes Introduction, 6y Ruger Lipsey Tue Inpran Texorr An Indian Temple: The Kandarya Mahadeo Synovric Essays ‘A Figure of Speech ot a Figure of ‘Thought? The Philosophy of Mediaeval and Oriental Art ‘The Part of Art in Indian Life Introduction to the Art of Eastern Asia Inpraw Arr AND AESTHETICS ‘The Intellectual Operation in Indian Ar: The Nature of Buddhist Art Samvega: Aesthetic Shock MeorasvaL Ant aND AzsTHETICS ‘The Mediaeval Theory of Beauty Ars sine sctentia nihil The Meeting of Eyes Kusnuina Srvprs Ornament Shaker Furniture Note on the Philosophy of Persian Art Tntension Imitation, Expressinn, and Participarinn Primitive Mentality Chinese Painting at Boston Symptom, Diagnosis, and Regimen ix xiii xxvii BHI 13 147 179 189 229 233 24t 255 260 266 236 286 308 316CONTENTS ‘TRapitioNaL SYMBOLISM Methodology Literary Symbolism The Rape of a Nagi: An Indian Gup-a Seal Walter Andrae’s Die ionische Séule: Basiform oder Symbol? : A Review Four Studies On the Loathly Bride Le Corps persemé d’ yeux The Inverted Tree The Sea The Sundoor and Relaed Motifs ‘The Symbolism of the Dome Appendix: Pali kaparka: Circular Kooj-piate Svayamdtrnnd: Janua Coeli Symplegades General Index Index of Greek Terms Index of Sanskrit and Pali ‘Verms ” 353 37h 37 495 45 py 15 521 545 568 570 List of Illustrations Fromzispiece. Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy Photn by Dona Luisa Coomaraswamy. 1, Nandarya Mahadeo Temple, Khajuieu General view from the south, Courtesy of the American Institue of Indian Stites. 2, The Gracious Manifestation of Devi Rajput painting, r7th-r8rh century. Courtesy of the Smithsonian In- stitution, Freer Gallery cf Art, ington, D.C. 3, Quentin Matsys: Christus Salvetor Mundi Ousyright ACL. Brus: 4. Shaker Furniture Courtesy of the Henry Francis cnPort Winterthur Museum, The Edward Deming Andrew: Memorial Shake Collection . Sarmatian(?) Ornament Gilesilver and garnet(?) mount. Courtesy of the Trustees 9° the Dritish Museura. See comment in Editor’s Note, 9. vin wn 6 Uuise ané Doakxey: Folk Art aad Routgeois Art Photo in A. K, Coomaraswamy collection. >. Eagle Carrying Youth Tadian seal imnpression, 5th century av, Loyis Curtis Pund, courtesy of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. 8. Rape of a Nagi From Sanghzo (after Grinwedel). 9. Garuda and Nzga Mediaeval Indian, 10, Garuda and Negi From Negysrentmitlas, Photo by Licktbildwerks:itte “Alpentand.” it. The Apocalyptic Lamb Wall pcinting, Museo de Ante de Catala, Barcelona, Photo Mas. 12. The Sevena-Rayed Sun ‘A. Ao represented on Indian punchmarked coins, after John Allan, Catalogue of the Coins of Ancient India (London: Hritsh Muscum, 1936): B. from the Nativity in tae caurch of San Matorano in Sicily; detail after the mosaic. 1A. So-Called “Cotton Bale” Symbol 13B-1. Related Motifs from Westera Asiatic Seals B. Hans van der Osten, Anciont Oriental Seals in the Newell Col. lection (Chicago, 1934), ph XV, no. 1993 C. dens, pr 109, Tig. 4 xi “p 332 373 4ot 3 483LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS no, 339; D. aad E. from a Cypro-Mycenaean cylinder, Arthur Evans, “Mycenean Tree and Pillar Cult,” JES, 1901; F. Carl Heme, Myrites et sympboles Lunaires (Aatwenp, 1932), p. 138: G. Ward, Seal Cylin- ders of Western Asia (110), ps 247) 11. va dea Osten, Anviewe Ort ental Seals, p. 109, fg. 4, no. 360: 1. idem. Symbol on a Coin from Ierapolis H, A. Strong and J. Garstang, The Syrian Goddess (London, 1913), fg. 7. 14. Hen Hypaethral Tree Shrines Front and side view, from O. Jansé, Briques et objets céramiques funésaires de Pépaaue des Han aptarienant aC. T. Loo et Cie. (Paris, 1936), pl. vin, fig. 3. 15, Jade s°ung Ross Collection. Courtesy of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. 16. Jade pi Courtesy of the Smithsonian Institution, Freer Gallery of Art, Wash- ington, D.C vy. Han Grave Slab After O, Jansé, Brégues ot objete céramiques fanéraives de Pépoque des Lan appartenant & C. T. Leo ei Cie. (Batis, 1936), p. ty fie 3 18. Egyptian World Door and Sundoor Heaci Edouard Naville, Das dgyprische Todsenduch (Butlin, 866), 1, pl. 28, and IL. Schifer, deyprtsche und heutige Kunst und Welt gebiiede der alten Agypter (Declin, 1928), abo. 22 24 29A, B. Hieronymus Bosch: A) Entrance to the Celesti:l Para- dise; B) The Earthly Paradise Wing:panels from a lose altarpiece or altarpieces, Palac: of tht Doges, Venice; photo Alin 20. Christ Pantakracor Dome of the chusch et Daphai; photo J. Powell. ar. Sarcophagus from Ravenna Fifth or sixth century. J. Strzygowski, Sparen indogermanischen Glaubens ia der dildenden Kunst (Heidelberg, 1936}, hg. 85- 22. ‘The Heavenly Ladder Byzanting carly :ath ccntury, From a Klimax MS, courtesy of the Smithsonian Institution, Freer Gallery of Art, Washingtoa, D.C. 23, Solar Tree (aévattha, Ficus reliziosa), with Sun-Disk and Guardian Diagons. Krom an Indns Valley seal, 3rd millennium ac. 482 289 4 494 506 idharmakosa Abhinaya Darpana hylus, Fr. Ait. Up. Angelus Silesius Anugid Apuleius Acuinas Aristode Arthalastra List of Abbreviations and Short Titles The Book of the Gradual Soyings (Anguitara-Ni- fava), od. F. L, Woudwerd and E, M. Haze, 5 vols, Londoa, 1432-1939 (PTS). Aitareye Aranyaka, 2d, A. B. Keith, Oxford, 1909, (=Aitoreya Brahmana\. Rigveda Brebmanas: The Aitareya and Kausitaki Brahmapas of the Riz- veda, cd. A. B. Keith, Cambridge, Mess, 1920 (HOS XXV), LVAviidharmakoba de Vasubsndhu, tr Louis de la Vallée-Poussin, 6 vols, Peris, 1923-193. The Mirror of Gesture: Being the Abhinoya Dar pare of Nandiketvara, ed. A. K, Coomaraswamy, with Gopala Keistnaya Duggirala, Cambridge, Mass., 191 In Nauck (sce below). Aitareya Upanisedy. In The Thirteen Prine ‘pal Upanishads, ed, R. H. Hume, ond ed., rey. London, 1931. (Johana Schefller) Cherubinischer Wandersmanm, new cd., Munich, 1049. Tie Cherubinic Wanderer selections ur. W. R. Trask, New York, 1953, The Bhagavadg: Anugitd, od. Ki 1882 (SBE VII). The Golden Ass, tr. W. Adlington, revised by S. Gaselee (LCL) 1, Sancti Thoraae Aquinatis, ducovris angelic’, DOpere omnia ad fide optimarum editionum ac- curato recognite. 25 vols, Perma, 1852-1872 See also Sum, Theol. Lelow. De anima, te. W. S. Hett (LCL). The Meiupiysics, tr. Hugh Tredennick (LCL). The Nichomachean Ethics, w. H, Rackher (Tet) 4- The Physios, te. Francis M, Cornford (LCL). 5. The Poetics, tc. W, Hamilton Fyte (LCL). Kautilya’« Arthasasira, ed, R. Shamesastry, 2nd ed., Mysuie, 1923+ 4, with the Sanatvugatiya, and the inith Trimbak Teleng, Oxford, xiii