The Ancient and Medieval Architecture of India: A Study of Indo-Aryan Civilisation c8.45

c8.45

“Go and build villages on the line of march!” When the Bôsat, his minister, had finished his preparations he said to the Râja, “‘ inverts the whole sequence of their derivation. The rail surrounding a Buddhist or Jain stûpa, and placed there to protect it from the influence It is evidently part of the defences of the town or fortress-palace of King Suddhodana. Above the toran, or torans (for it must have been doubled to carry the superstructure), is built a guard-house, with the usual barrel-vaulted roof and framed balustrade, made in the same way as the wooden walls of the town. This gateway is clearly the wooden prototype of the guard-houses of later Hindu and Muhammadan fortresses, with their *naubat-khâna*, or music-gallery, where the royal drummers announced the King’s going and coming at any state function, and sounded the alarm in case of attack.