The Age of the Imperial Guptas c9.95

c9.95

Unfortunately specimens of architecture of the Pāṭaliputra school are so very meagre that it is not possible to speak much about its products. The excavations of Nālandā have yielded much that is important,² but was used in later periods during the successive reconstructions under the Pālas of Bengal. The only specimen of the Pāṭaliputra school worth mentioning is the exquisite door-frame discovered by the writer at Dah Parbatiya near the town of Tezpur in the Darrang district of Assam. This door-frame though not connected with any dated inscription is undoubtedly Gupta because of its use of—