Indian Art: A History of Indian Art from the Earliest Times up to the Third Century A.D. c15.s2.t3.8
Indian Art: A History of Indian Art from the Earliest Times up to the Third Century A.D. c15.s2.t3.8
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Stūpa 6 was originally of the decorative class, about 40' in diameter, situated away from the monastic sites. It was provided with āyaka-platforms and pillars and the front face below the central pillar was carved with a bas-relief showing the Buddha preaching or Turning the Wheel-of-Law. The contents of the reliquary included two thin medallions of gold bearing stamped figures of a male and a female in genuine classical type as shown by their coiffure, eyes and necks. Probably the small bone-relic in the gold casket belonged to a foreign distinguished monk teacher at this site. [Figs. 219-20].