Indian Art: A History of Indian Art from the Earliest Times up to the Third Century A.D. c11.57
Indian Art: A History of Indian Art from the Earliest Times up to the Third Century A.D. c11.57
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c11.57
PILLARS FOUND UP TO NOW—Up to now the following Aśokan pillars have been discovered : Sārnāth (with a capital of four lions), Sānchī (capital with four lions), Rāmpurvā (with lion capital), again Rampurvā (bull-capital, uninscribed), Lauriā Nandangarh (with lion capital), Lauriā Ararāj, Allahabad (probably removed by Akbar from Kauśāmbi), Kosam (uninscribed but with Mauryan polish), Rummindeī, Niglīvā, Bakhirā (Vaiśālī, with lion capital), Saṅkisā (uninscribed with a lion capital) and two pillars at Delhi removed by Sultan Firoz Tughlak in 1356, of which one originally stood at Meerut and the other at Topra in Ambala district.