Indian Art: A History of Indian Art from the Earliest Times up to the Third Century A.D. c12.s2.31

c12.s2.31

OUTER RAILING :—The excavations also brought to light the remains of a second stone railing of much smaller dimensions of which each pillar was 2' 1" in height with a breadth of 7" and a coping 7" in height, the total height of the outer railing being 3' 3". Only two pillars and no less than ten specimens of coping were found but there must have been about 240 of these smaller pillars and about 750 of cross-bars most of which have disappeared. This outer railing of which the pillars were also carved, was added at a much later date most probably during the Kuṣhāṇa period