Prehistoric India to 1000 B.C. c12.82

c12.82

In addition to these exceptional buildings, the citadel area at Mohenjo-daro also contained what appear from their plans to be houses similar to those in the remaining areas of the city. But the general character of the citadel architecture is obviously dominated by the presence of the Great Bath, the Collegiate Building, the Pillared Hall, and, one suspects, by whatever structure lies beneath the stupa. The implication is, in Wheeler’s words, that we have here ‘a centre of religious or administrative life on a significant scale’. The Great Bath takes its place well in a sacred site when one considers the ‘tank’ ancillary to every Hindu temple of the middle ages, and, while the actual temple cannot yet be identified, continuity of religious tradition on the stupa site would be by no means unlikely.