Indian Art: A History of Indian Art from the Earliest Times up to the Third Century A.D. c11.52
Indian Art: A History of Indian Art from the Earliest Times up to the Third Century A.D. c11.52
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(xi) A Pillar surmounted by a lion in front of an Aśokan Stūpa at Mahāśāla where Yuān Chwāng saw a Nārāyaṇa temple with halls and terraces beautifully adorned and with sculptured stone images in the highest style of art. An epigraph on the pillar stated how the Buddha here subdued and converted a certain Yaksha (ib. 2.60). There was an Aśokan Stūpa here in front of which the stone pillar was raised as was the practice of Aśoka to combine the two monuments.