Indian Art: A History of Indian Art from the Earliest Times up to the Third Century A.D. c13.s4.4

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one restorations. The orginal Stūpa probably a small one was a mound of earth which concealed a miniature Stūpa of gold and gems. Later on, as the tradition says it was converted into a brick Stūpa. In the third stage the same was transformed into a stone Stūpa together with the addition of a large stone railing and gateways with a good deal of carving to give it the form of a lotus-railing, Padmavaravedikā, as described above on the basis of the actual art specimens and the description in the Rāyapaseṇiya Sutta.