History of Indian and Indonesian Art c8.s2.45

c8.s2.45

Another important group of *stūpas*, at least fifteen in number, is found at Māṇikyālā, some twenty miles south east of Rāwalpiṇḍī, and several have yielded valuable relics. The largest, and best preserved of all the Pañjāb *stūpas*, is a hemispherical dome of the ancient type, but probably dating from the second or third century and repaired, perhaps in the eighth, when the pillared basement must have been added. Other *stūpas* are met with further down the valley, at Mohenjo-Daro, where fragments of frescoes have been recovered, and at Thūl Mīr Rukhan near Daulatpur¹, Saïdpur² and Mīrpur Khās³, the latter here regarded as of early Gupta date.