Indian Art: A History of Indian Art from the Earliest Times up to the Third Century A.D. c4.15

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Chapter VI, Śaiśunāga-Nanda Period, describes the architecture of the Old and New Rājgṛiha. Here an important section is that of Mother Goddess ring-stones which should be identified as Śrī-Chakras of the cult of Goddess Śrī-Lakshmī, which may be traced to the Yajurveda and even to the Khila-Sūkta of the Ṛigveda, having a continuous tradition in religion, art and literature up to our own times. This affords a very valuable evidence about the worship of the Great Mother Goddess in India, which henceforth should supply an independent chapter to the history of the Magna Mater (Mahī-mātā) in the various religious arts of the world.