Indian Art: A History of Indian Art from the Earliest Times up to the Third Century A.D. c11.5

c11.5

The actual remains of the city as explored upto now confirm the literary accounts. At Kumrahar remains of the palace and to its north at Bulandibaga a portion of the city-wall for a length of 450 ft. have been exposed. This agrees with the requirements of town-planning according to which the city-wall should have been removed from the palace area and on the outskirts of the town away from the Gaṅgā side. The partial remains of the solid city-wall consists of two rows of piles or stakes of *sāla* timber, each 18 ft. high and 1 ft. broad and both rows being bonded together by layers of cross planks about 14 ft. in length with earth tightly rammed in between them. The palisades of Pāṭaliputra are in the true sense a *Sāla-Prākāra*. No polished stones were found in the dig of the city-wall or none was needed there, whereas the Kumrahar site is full of them.