Indian Sculpture c9.58
Indian Sculpture c9.58
- Language
- English
c9.58
46. The lotus creeper composition, with scenes or human figures, is not only given an important position and wide extent as frieze of the coping stone of the railing in Bhārhut, but it also figures on the posts of stūpa II, Sāñcī (Figs. 29-31) and on the gates (South gate of stūpa I, gate of stūpa III, Sāñcī, on the inside and outside of the latter) and on fragments from a railing at Besnagar (A.S.I., W. Circle, 1914, phot. 4042, 4048).