Sanchi Stupa Images
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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.
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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]
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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]
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Inscription "Vedisakehi datakrehi rupakama kata" ( , "Ivory workers from Vidisha have done the carving").[43]
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War over the Buddha's Relics, kept by the city of Kushinagar, South Gate, Stupa no.1, Sanchi.[68]
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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]
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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]
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"The promenade of the Buddha", or Chankrama, used to depict the Buddha in motion in Buddhist aniconism.
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This Sanchi relief permitted this reconstruction of the city of Kushinagara circa 500 BCE.
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The Buddha in levitation performing the Miracle of Sravasti, Gandhara, 100-200 CE.
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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)".
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Stupas and monasteries at Sanchi in the early centuries of the Common Era. Reconstruction, 1900
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Temple 17: a Gupta period tetrastyle prostyle temple of Classical appearance. 5th century CE[122]
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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.
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Pillar 26: lion pillar capital at time of discovery, with Dharmachakra wheel (reconstruction). Northern Gateway.[128]
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Pillar 35 column stump (right), and bell capital with abacus, positioned upside down.
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Temple 18 at Sanchi, an apsidal hall with Maurya foundations, rebuilt at the time of Harsha (7th century CE).
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The Great Stupa as breached by Sir Herbert Maddock in 1822. Watercolor by Frederick Charles Maisey, in 1851.
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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]
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