The Beginnings of Buddhist Art and Other Essays in Indian and Central-Asian Archaeology c11.s1.189

c11.s1.189

I. — This outline, for convenience completed by restoring the pinnacles, has the effect of ocularly exhibiting the shape, as a segment of a sphere, but with indented edges, which the original plan had from the beginning assigned to the stûpa of Boro-Budur and of which the addition of the lower terrace has not succeeded in divesting it. (Cf. p. 209.)