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# The Greeks in Bactria and India c10.s2.35

The Greeks in Bactria and India c10.s2.35

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### [c10.s2.35](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.tarn-1938.c10.s2.35)

³ A stupa was a Buddhist shrine, circular and domed, usually but not always enclosing a relic. Buildings, even of stupa form, which did not enclose a relic were usually called chaityas: de la Vallée-Poussin p. 149. See on stupas, archaeology apart, Foucher I chap. I, and the long study by P. Mus, ‘Barabudur’, \*BEFEO\* XXXII, 1932, pp. 269–439, XXXIII pp. 577–980, XXXIV pp. 175–400.

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