[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Reference works](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference) › [An Encyclopaedia of Indian Archaeology](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.ghosh-1989) › v2.c46.417 # An Encyclopaedia of Indian Archaeology v2.c46.417 An Encyclopaedia of Indian Archaeology v2.c46.417 - **Language:** English ### [v2.c46.417](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.ghosh-1989.v2.c46.417) Belonging to Pd IV, 100 B.C. to A.D. 200, were two Buddhist \*vihāras\*, one of them with a well and a brick-lined refuse-pit. Inside another well, rectangular in shape and with the shaft going down to a depth of 4·6 m. and with rope marks on the inner face and depressions on the edging floor for keeping water vessels, were pieces of mortar pestles, potsherds with Buddhist symbols, pebbles and steatite caskets. A 2·1 m deep soak-pit lined with wedge-shaped bricks was found in the s.-e. corner of one of the monasteries. A large quantity of kaolin pottery, black ware and ware stamped with Buddhist symbols formed the ceramic contents of the Pd. The kaolin ware was represented by the bowl with round or omphaloid base, neck of a jar with the \*tri-ratna\* symbol, jar with looped handle, shallow cup and handle of a mirror bearing zigzag lines and simple curves in the exterior. Beads of usual semiprecious stones, glass, faïence and terracotta, a tanged knife with curved blade, nails, door-clamps and rings of iron, antimony rods and receptacles of copper, terracotta figurines of the mother goddess \[12.6\] and the torso of a bull, a shell ‘head scratcher’, stone querns, lead coins, and an ivory comb and bone points were the other finds. - [Previous: v2.c46.416](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.ghosh-1989.v2.c46.416) - [Next: v2.c46.418](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.ghosh-1989.v2.c46.418) - [Up: v2.c46](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.ghosh-1989.v2.c46) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.ghosh-1989.v2.c46.417](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.ghosh-1989.v2.c46.417) · Pramāṇa