Indian Art: A History of Indian Art from the Earliest Times up to the Third Century A.D. c11.155
Indian Art: A History of Indian Art from the Earliest Times up to the Third Century A.D. c11.155
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The four addorsed lions symbolise the might of a *Chakravartī* king. It is the power of the State known as *Kshatra* expressed through the lion symbolism as we know that the king was considered to be a tiger or lion in his kingdom and in the coronation ceremony was made to sit on a lion's seat (*Simhāsana*). The four lions of the capital truly form a *Simhāsana* of the most perfect type which support the moral order of the kingdom.