Indian Art: A History of Indian Art from the Earliest Times up to the Third Century A.D. c11.40
Indian Art: A History of Indian Art from the Earliest Times up to the Third Century A.D. c11.40
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c11.40
AŚOKAN PILLARS—The cream of Aśokan art consists of his monolithic stone pillars with imposing capitals, which bespeak not only artistic excellence combined with technical skill but also much originality of thought on the part of the emperor. Under the twofold scheme as explained above, of marking the sacred spots of Buddhism and the centres and boundaries of Madhya Deśa, Aśoka erected many pillars of which a full catalogue would be helpful to obtain a complete picture of his art, but all the pillars do not seem to have survived.