Indian Architecture (Buddhist and Hindu Periods) c15.8

c15.8

If, however, the craftsmen in the south of India evinced no special genius in rock-architecture and its appurtenances, on the other hand, as distinct from these, some of the early Buddhist structural monuments, notably the stupas, show not only commendable technical experience in their production, but an artistic perception of a particularly high order. There are the remains of at least eleven such structures, most of them, including the largest, being distributed throughout a circular area of seventy-five miles radius from Ellore, a town situated between the deltas of the Kistna and the Godavari A list is given at the end of the chapter, but [Figure: CONJECTURAL RESTORATION DERIVED FROM THE BAS-RELIEFS OF THE AMARAVATI STUPA, MADRAS PRESIDENCY, CIR. 3RD CENT. A.D.