The Indus Civilization (Cambridge History of India, Supplementary Volume) c11.s1.3

c11.s1.3

at Harappā its basis is a mound deliberately constructed for the purpose. Beneath the Buddhist monastery, already noted, Banerji and Marshall dug down through seven successive Harappan phases. Between the 6th and the 7th (numbered from the top) was “an unusually large interval of 20 ft. . . . The intervening space is occupied almost entirely by crude brick or alluvial mud heaped up artificially so as to form an immense platform over the whole of this stūpa area, as well as over a big expanse of ground to the north of it.”¹ Elsewhere, on the northern and southern ends of the citadel, rain-washed exposures of this great platform are visible, and on the western side the Granary found in 1950 stands upon it and is indeed contemporary with it.