Indian Art: A History of Indian Art from the Earliest Times up to the Third Century A.D. c15.s2.t3.3
Indian Art: A History of Indian Art from the Earliest Times up to the Third Century A.D. c15.s2.t3.3
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c15.s2.t3.3
The excavations exposed that there were forty inside chambers filled with earth. In one of them to the north-west, removed from the centre as was invariably the case with all the Stūpas at Nagarjunikonda, was found the relic-casket (dhātu-manjūshā), containing a gold reliquary placed inside a Stūpa-shaped silver one together with a few gold flowers, pearls, garnets and crystals (hema-pushpa and ratnapushpa). No portion of any carved slab was found in the debris round the Stūpa, testifying to its originally plain character.