An Encyclopaedia of Indian Archaeology v1.c9.s18.44

v1.c9.s18.44

The inferences pertaining to the preclassical stage are mainly based on the data from RAIRH, SAMBHAR, NAGAR,² NOH, JODHPURA, NAGARI, AHAR,² BAIRAT, etc. The pottery is mainly of red ware, with an occasional use of grey. Emergence of plain spouted jars and knobbed lids form conspicuous features of the ceramic industry. The stage was marked by a greater activity in baked brick, besides mud. Some of the interesting structural remains comprise: the plan of a double-roomed house at RAIRH, dwellings with central courtyards and side rooms at SAMBHAR, a Buddhist monastic complex at BAIRAT and the plan of an elliptical shrine with plastered mud walls bearing a *pradakṣiṇāpatha* at NAGARI, which has been dated by the excavator to an earlier age (350-300 B.C.) and which was probably of Vaiṣṇava affiliation. Ring-wells [14.15] and in one case a drain were also found associated with the habitation.