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# 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)

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Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/inp.artefact.bm.1880-0709-109](https://indike.org/pramana/inp.artefact.bm.1880-0709-109) · Pramāṇa
