Indian Art: A History of Indian Art from the Earliest Times up to the Third Century A.D. c11.46
Indian Art: A History of Indian Art from the Earliest Times up to the Third Century A.D. c11.46
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(v) Kanakamuni commemorative pillar near Kapilavastu, above 20 ft. high crowned by a lion and inscribed with the record of Kanakamuni's decease (ib. 2.6). This is definitely the same as the Aśokan column at Niglīvā on the north-east side of Kapilavastu bearing an inscription about the enlargement of the Stūpa and the erection of the Silā-thabha, the latter event in the 20th year of his reign (c. 250 BC, Hultzsch, CII. 1. 165).