Pilaster

A drum pilaster carved in limestone ('Palnad marble') with the First Sermon (empty throne below a long pillar surmounted by a dharmacakra and flanked by worshippers along its entire length); the throne is flanked by a pair of seated deer and at its base is a fiery pillar surmounted by a triratna.

Kind

artefact

Date

200–299 CE

Place

Amarāvatī (16.5700, 80.3600)