Indian Art: A History of Indian Art from the Earliest Times up to the Third Century A.D. c10.62

c10.62

Their character of burial mound (*śmaśāna-chaitya*) seems to be supported by the wooden post found in the centre of one of them, known as the lofty *Chaitya-yūpa* (*chaitya-yūpa-ivochchhhritah*, Sabhāparva, 22 22; Krishna riding on Garuda looked like a lofty sacrificial pillar on the top of a burial mound). There are five barrows in the east and west row and six barrows in the inner north and south row, while the outer north and south row has four large and at least seven small barrows. The mounds in the row from east to west range in height 20 to 45 feet and all are made of clean earth and those in the north-south row from 15 to 55 feet. [Fig. 41].