Indian Art: A History of Indian Art from the Earliest Times up to the Third Century A.D. c12.s3.23
Indian Art: A History of Indian Art from the Earliest Times up to the Third Century A.D. c12.s3.23
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A very impressive phenomenon is the association of the whole community of lay worshippers in the construction of the railing and the gateways as shown by the small donative inscriptions engraved on them. Dr. Bühler published a collection of 378 inscriptions from this balustrade of Stūpa I and 78 from Stūpa II whereas N. G. Majumdar has given a total of 827 dedicatory epigraphs from Stūpas I, II and III. An important inscription on the east gateway of Stūpa I dated Gupta era 93 (=412-413 A.D.) records the conquest of Eastern Malwa by Chandragupta II.