Indian Art: A History of Indian Art from the Earliest Times up to the Third Century A.D. c11.136
Indian Art: A History of Indian Art from the Earliest Times up to the Third Century A.D. c11.136
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c11.136
The four lions above the abacus are illustrative of the royal power of a Chakravartī emperor like Aśoka himself. The Buddha also combined in himself the two ideals, viz. that of a Chakravartī and a Yogin and both of them are juxtaposed in the Lion-capital.