Indian Art: A History of Indian Art from the Earliest Times up to the Third Century A.D. c7.s1.8

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Besides the citadel on the Stūpa mound at Mohenjo-daro the Great Bath, an Assembly Hall, the so-called 'College Building' having numerous rooms with a courtyard and a grand staircase (all pointing to its character as a Royal Palace), and last of all the Granary exposed in Wheeler's excavation being similar to the elaborate Granary of Harappa, are other structures of monumental nature pointing to the architectural genius of their builders. The Assembly Hall rests on twenty pillars arranged in four rows of five each, some of them 25 ft. high, and is a spacious building, 85 ft. square, seemingly of multipurpose use as a *Sabhā* and office of the city-guild similar to *Samthāgāra* of Buddhist times.