Indian Art: A History of Indian Art from the Earliest Times up to the Third Century A.D. c15.s1.t2.7
Indian Art: A History of Indian Art from the Earliest Times up to the Third Century A.D. c15.s1.t2.7
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c15.s1.t2.7
The ambulatory passage was about five feet higher than the terrace outside the rail, and so a small stairway with a moonstone (*chandrasilā*) at its bottom decorated with lotuses, as illustrated on one of the *Chaityapaṭas* of the late phase. On the same slab the vertical face of the terrace outside the railing is decorated with a row of animals, *chatushpadapaṅkti* of the *Mahāvaṃsa*.