[105] In Balinese decoration, writes Miss Martine Tonnet (see her article already cited), the naga- (or kala-naga-) seems to flourish beside the makara-ornament.
[106] Lit. “white tiger”, situated in Banyuwangi.
What is Holiest? That which now and ever the souls of men
Have felt deep and deeper, will always more unite them.
[108] An endowed convent whose inmates spent their lives in studious seclusion.
[109] The Indian Empire: its Peoples, History and Products.
[110] After this was written a remarkable article by Dr. L. A. Waddell in The Imperial and Asiatic Quarterly Review (January, 1912), insisting upon the theistic nature of Buddhism and speaking of the profound theistic development which had taken place—about 100 B.C.—in the direction of the Mahayana form of that faith, pointed to the fact of Brahmanic gods being also conspicuous in the earliest Buddhist sculptures of India, adorning, e.g., the stupa of Bharhoot.
[111] On rereading this sentence, I see that in writing it I was with Ruskin at the Shepherd’s Tower. No harm done! His observations bear repetition, notwithstanding the present fashion of pooh-poohing him, and setting myself in the pillory as a plagiarist, I improve the opportunity by making amende (honorable, I hope) also for what this book owes to many other lovers of and thinkers on art, not scrupulously acknowledged in every instance because I compose without the help of numbered and dated notes, and memory, though not failing in the essence of what has been stored from their treasures, disappoints at times in the matter of chapter and verse.
[112] The chandi Kalasan is the only one in Central Java of which we possess the exact date.
[113] The taras are the saktis of the five Dhyani Buddhas that occupy a place in Javanese speculative philosophy, Vajradhatvisvari pairing with Vajrochana, Lotchana with Akshobhya, Mamaki with Ratnasambhava, Pandara with Amitabha, and Tara par excellence with Amoghasiddha, these unions being responsible for the Bodhisatvas Samantabhadra, Vajrapani, Ratnapani, Padmapani and the coming Vishvapani.