The Early History of India, from 600 B.C. to the Muhammadan Conquest, including the Invasion of Alexander the Great c21.67

c21.67

The caves with highly polished walls excavated in the intensely hard quartzose gneiss of the Barābar hills near Gayā by order of Asoka, for the use of the Ājīvika ascetics, an extremely ancient penitential order distinct from both the Jains and the Buddhists, recall Egyptian work by the mastery displayed over intractable material.²