Indian Art: A History of Indian Art from the Earliest Times up to the Third Century A.D. c12.s4.6
Indian Art: A History of Indian Art from the Earliest Times up to the Third Century A.D. c12.s4.6
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*Chaṅkramaṇa-Chaitya* (Pali, *Chaṅkama*): This was the name given to the pathway near the *Vajrāsana* Throne where Buddha used to take his walk and it is stated that after his Sambodhi he walked here for seven days immersed in profound meditative thought about the new knowledge he had obtained. The terraced walk that still exists is 53' long. It was a wall 3' high and 3' 6" broad, flanked on the two sides by eleven pillar-bases in stone which appear to have been added later and indicate that the promenade was once covered. The pillar bases are much similar to such stone bases (*Kumbha*) found at Mathura (Vogel's *Catalogue*, pl. II c-d).