The Beginnings of Buddhist Art and Other Essays in Indian and Central-Asian Archaeology c9.187
The Beginnings of Buddhist Art and Other Essays in Indian and Central-Asian Archaeology c9.187
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I. — Plate XXIV, 1, represents a stele furnished at the top with the handle of a parasol, and at the bottom with a tenon, which must have fitted into a base in the form of a lotus similar to the one on plate XXV, 1. It has already been reproduced in the *J. Ind. Art and Ind.*, no. 69, 1900, fig. 23 = Buddh. *Art in India*, fig. 121. The original, which came from the excavations at Loriyān-Tangai (Swāt), is preserved in the Calcutta museum; in height it measures m. 0.45.