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Indian Art: A History of Indian Art from the Earliest Times up to the Third Century A.D. c15.s1.5

Indian Art: A History of Indian Art from the Earliest Times up to the Third Century A.D. c15.s1.5

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c15.s1.5

From the above account the fate of the Amaravati Stūpa reads like a plunder of the Heavenly Palace of Indra in which the only silver lining is that such a substantial portion of the carved marbles has been rescued which enables to reconstruct a mental picture of the physical and spiritual splendour of this Great Stūpa, or pile of sculptured marbles.