Pillar

The lower section of an octagonal pillar, carved in limestone ('Palnad marble') with reliefs depicting: a pillar topped with a seated lion on a platform above foliage emerging from a purnaghata, a pillar with a vedika railing and a dharmacakra mounted on it above a mass of stylised foliage, a yaksa blowing a trumpet …

Kind

artefact

Date

99–1 BCE

Place

Amarāvatī (16.5700, 80.3600)