Indian Art: A History of Indian Art from the Earliest Times up to the Third Century A.D. c11.36
Indian Art: A History of Indian Art from the Earliest Times up to the Third Century A.D. c11.36
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c11.36
Aśoka himself had lived at Vidiśā and married the daughter of a marchant there. He thus had a love for the Mahā Chaitya at Sanchi and enlarged it by providing a beautiful brightly polished Chhatra Yaṣṭi or umbrella with a post now preserved in pieces in the Sanchi museum.