Indian Art: A History of Indian Art from the Earliest Times up to the Third Century A.D. c11.35
Indian Art: A History of Indian Art from the Earliest Times up to the Third Century A.D. c11.35
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The monolithic stone railing (ekāśmaka vedikā) found at Sarnath once crowned the dome of the so-called Jagat Singh Stūpa round its Harmikā. It is a square structure consisting of upright posts with three cross-bars between each pair, the whole cut out of a single huge mass of stone and distinguished by the bright Mauryan polish in all its parts. [Fig. 47].