Indian Art: A History of Indian Art from the Earliest Times up to the Third Century A.D. c15.s2.t1.6

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A big stone-built wharf or landing place for ships (250' × 50' × about 6' high along the water front) on the Krishna has also been exposed at Nagarjunikonda. All other monuments were built of large-sized bricks (20" × 10" × 3", similar to those at Bulandibag and Amaravati), which were joined with mud-mortar, The walls were plastered and whitewashed (sudhākamma) for the purpose of painting and gilding. The āyaka-pillars, floors and the important sculptures, both carved on the ūrdhvapatta slabs and free-standing, were made of white or grey limestone resembling marble and easy to work, known in ancient times as medavaṇṇa pāsāṇa, marrow-coloured stone, which was a local variety of marble.