. Chinese clay figures. Sculpture -- China; Arms and armor, Chinese; China -- Antiquities. 122 Chinese Clay Figures. Fig. 14. Se-ru as Emblem of Long Life (from Tibetan Wood-engraving). word bse-ru rendered by Chinese shen yang ("divine goat");1 and this is thus far the only literary indication which I am able to trace in regard to a Tibetan unicorn of goat-like Such a bse-ru is represented on a Tibetan woodcut as an emblem of long life {bse-ru ts'e rih; Fig. 14). The picture, of which it forms a 1 The Manchu has the artificial formation Sengkitu, and three other words be
. Chinese clay figures. Sculpture -- China; Arms and armor, Chinese; China -- Antiquities. 122 Chinese Clay Figures. Fig. 14. Se-ru as Emblem of Long Life (from Tibetan Wood-engraving). word bse-ru rendered by Chinese shen yang ("divine goat");1 and this is thus far the only literary indication which I am able to trace in regard to a Tibetan unicorn of goat-like Such a bse-ru is represented on a Tibetan woodcut as an emblem of long life {bse-ru ts'e rih; Fig. 14). The picture, of which it forms a 1 The Manchu has the artificial formation Sengkitu, and three other words besides,— Sacintu, tontu, and tubitu (see Sacharov, Manchu-Russian Dictionary, P- 734).—f°r tne designation of this unicorn. It will be remembered that the term shin yang occurs in Hou Han shu in defining the unicorn hiai chai (p. 115, note 2). 2 The Mongols have adopted seru as a loan-word from Tibetan in the sense of "rhinoceros," as stated by Kovalevski and Golstunski in their Mongol dictionaries; but they take the word also in the sense of a "deer," as shown by the Mongol transla- tion of the Tibetan medical work translated into Russian by A. Pozdnayev (Vol. I, p. 288). The Mongol equivalent of Tibetan bse-ru and Chinese si kio is here bodi gilrugasun ("the animal of the bodhi," Sanskrit bodhimriga); that is, the gazelle. Besides, the Mongols have a seemingly indigenous word for "rhinoceros," — kiris, keris, or kers-un & Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Laufer, Berthold, 1874-1934. Chicago: Field Museum of Natural History
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