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Sanchi Stupa

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The Ashoka pillar at Sanchi. (Source)

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Plan of the monuments of the hill of Sanchi, numbered 1 to 50. (Source)

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The Great Stupa under the Sungas. The Sungas nearly doubled the diameter of the initial stupa, encasing it in stone, and built a balustrade and a railing around it. (Source)

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Mason's marks in Kharoshti indicate that craftsmen from the north-west were responsible for foreign reliefs of Stupa No. 2.[27] This medallion was made circa 115 BCE.[28] (Source)

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Sunga period railings were initially blank (left: Great Stupa), and only started to be decorated circa 115 BCE with Stupa No.2 (right).[29][30] (Source)

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Sunga pillar No25 with own capital on the side. (Source)

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Inscription "Vedisakehi datakrehi rupakama kata" ( , "Ivory workers from Vidisha have done the carving").[43] (Source)

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The Great Stupa at the time of the Satavahanas. (Source)

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War over the Buddha's Relics, kept by the city of Kushinagar, South Gate, Stupa no.1, Sanchi.[68] (Source)

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King Ashoka visits Ramagrama, to take relics of the Buddha from the Nagas, but he failed, the Nagas being too powerful. Southern gateway, Stupa 1, Southern Gateway, Sanchi.[72] (Source)

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Ashoka in grief, supported by his two queens, in a relief at Sanchi. Stupa 1, Southern gateway. The identification with Ashoka is confirm by a similar relief from Kanaganahalli inscribed "Raya Asoko".[73][74][72] (Source)

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Bodhi tree temple depicted in Sanchi, Stupa 1, Southern gateway. (Source)

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Foreign devotees and musicians on the Northern Gateway of Stupa I.[76] (Source)

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"The promenade of the Buddha", or Chankrama, used to depict the Buddha in motion in Buddhist aniconism. (Source)

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The Siri-Satakani inscription (Source)

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This Sanchi relief permitted this reconstruction of the city of Kushinagara circa 500 BCE. (Source)

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The actual "Diamond throne" at Bodh Gaya, built by Ashoka c.260 BCE. (Source)

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The Buddha in levitation performing the Miracle of Sravasti, Gandhara, 100-200 CE. (Source)

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Jetavana story, Bharhut, 2nd century BCE. (Source)

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Foreigners playing carnyxes and aulos flute at Sanchi (detail). (Source)

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The same scene in the Greco-Buddhist art of Gandhara. (Source)

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The Diamond throne as discovered. (Source)

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At the top of the panel, Maya's dream of the visit of an elephant, in Kapilavastu. See also Maya's Dream (in "The life of Buddha)". (Source)

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Ruler of the Mallakas of Kushinagara under siege (left end of the architrave). (Source)

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Full relief.[113] (Source)

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The Mahakapi Jataka in Bharhut. (Source)

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Floral scrolls in the art of Gandhara. (Source)

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This would be the Ashokan capital (wheel lost) depicted in this panel. (Source)

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Stupas and monasteries at Sanchi in the early centuries of the Common Era. Reconstruction, 1900 (Source)

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Sanchi inscription of Chandragupta II. (Source)

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Temple 17: a Gupta period tetrastyle prostyle temple of Classical appearance. 5th century CE[122] (Source)

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Pillar 26: one of the two four-lions stambha capitals at Sanchi, with lions, central flame palmette and Wheel of Law (axis, stubs of the spokes and part of the circumference only), initially located at the Northern Gateway of the Great Stupa. Sanchi Archaeological Museum. (Source)

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Pillar 26: lion pillar capital at time of discovery, with Dharmachakra wheel (reconstruction). Northern Gateway.[128] (Source)

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Pillar 35 column stump (right), and bell capital with abacus, positioned upside down. (Source)

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Vajrapani statue of pillar 35, 5th c. CE. Sanchi Archaeological Museum. (Source)

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Temple 18 at Sanchi, an apsidal hall with Maurya foundations, rebuilt at the time of Harsha (7th century CE). (Source)

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The Great Stupa as breached by Sir Herbert Maddock in 1822. Watercolor by Frederick Charles Maisey, in 1851. (Source)

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Ruins of the Southern Gateway, Sanchi in 1875. (Source)

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A Gate to the Stupa of Sanchi 1932 (Source)

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Chetiyagiri Vihara (Source)

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Inscribed panel from Sanchi in Brahmi script in the British Museum[152] (Source)

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The last two letters to the right of this inscription in Brahmi form the word "dnam" (donation). This hypothesis permitted the decipherment of the Brahmi script by James Prinsep in 1837.[153] (Source)

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Sanchi Stupa no.1 (Source)

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The Eastern Gateway (Source)

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Ashok Pillar (Source)

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The Great Bowl (Source)

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Elephant procession to Sanchi Tope in Sanchi, Madhya Pradesh (Source)

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The Great Sanchi Stupa (Source)

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Chetiyagiri Vihara (Source)

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Magnificent Pillars at Sanchi Stupa (Source)

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