Indian Art: A History of Indian Art from the Earliest Times up to the Third Century A.D. c12.s1.4
Indian Art: A History of Indian Art from the Earliest Times up to the Third Century A.D. c12.s1.4
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The Stūpa exercised its fascination on the minds of the people. The learned regarded it as a metaphysical symbol and the common man worshipped it as the visible symbol of the Great Light that once was and whose relics were still enshrined within the heart of the Stūpa. The spherical or cylindrical drum, sited on the ground and crowned by a harmikā, or Divine Mansion (Deva-sadana) was in itself a complete symbol of the Mahāpurusha, the Great Being.