The Journal of Indian Art and Industry Indian Jewellery Part XI

On the appointed day the young neophyte now usually about eleven or twelve years old "dresses in his finest.clothes and loads himself with all the family gold chains and jewellery and as much more as he can borrow for the occasion and is taken in triumphant procession through the village returning to his home where the head of the monastery performs in the presence of his friends the ri [...] Shway Yoe states that in the monasteries the monks sit for hours fingerintheir rosaries the beads made of the seeds of the Canna indica (" Indian shot ") which sprang from Gautama's (Buddha's) blood and repeating many times the prescribed formukr most often the Thamatawse Patthanah -" All is changeful all is sad all is unreal ; followed by the Tharana Gol'inthe invocation of the Three [...] Byzantium seems to hate been the seat of enamelling both cloisonné and champleve in the middle ages of Christendom and in the fourteenth century events occurred which led to the dispersal of the enamellers to all parts of the world East as well as \Vest and perhaps at this time the art reached the northern borders of China probably through Armenia and Persia. [...] Flowers and butterflies are worn on bands of velvet and the eighteen small beads and other appendages of the official rosary are preferably made of jadeite; so is the tube for the hat of the decorated mandarin. [...] Yule the editor of his \\ orks observes:- -Coral is still a very popular adorment in the Himalayan countries.- The merchant Tavernier says "the people to the north of the Great Moghul's territories and in the mountains of Assam and Tibet \\ ere the greatest purchasers of coral." Marco Polo also notes that "Coral is in great demand in this county !that of the great Kublai khan! and fetches