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Catalogue and Hand-Book of the Archaeological Collections in the Indian Museum Volume 1

Catalogue and Hand-Book of the Archaeological Collections in the Indian Museum Volume 1

Museum, Indian

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ISBN10: 1150142111
ISBN13: 9781150142116
Publisher: General Books
Pages: 94
Weight: 0.40
Height: 0.19 Width: 7.44 Depth: 9.69
Language: English
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1883 Excerpt: ... ARCHAEOLOGICAL COLLECTIONS. INDIAN MUSEUM. ASOKA GALLERY. The first gallery of the archaeological section of the Museum is chiefly occupied with a portion of the railing, and one gateway of the Buddhist Stupa of Bharhut. They were removed from Bharhut to Calcutta, in order to save them from destruction by the ignorant peasantry who were in the habit of utilising the ruins of the Stupa as a quarry for building purposes. Some fragments of the pillars and coping, and a few crossbars of the quadrangular Buddhist railing of Buddha Gaya, have been built up as a restoration. The gallery also contains a series of fine casts of the friezes of the rock-cut temples of Orissa; and a few casts from the Sanchi Stupa. Gateway and Bailing of the Bharhut Stupa. The gateway of the Bharhut Stupa1 has been partially restored, and portions of two quadrants have been erected on either side of it in order to convey some idea of the nature of the structure. The gateway belonged to the eastern side of the Stupa, and it therefore now occupies the same relation to the quadrants as it did in the original building. A plan of the railing and Stupa hangs near the western wall, opposite the gateway. 1 Stupa is from a Sanskrit root meaning to heap or to erect, and has been corrupted in English into Tope. The term stupa is applicable to any pile or mound, as to a funeral pile, hence it comes to be applied to a Tumulus erected over any of the sacred relics of Buddha, or on spots consecrated as the scenes of his acts.--Burgess and Fergusson's Cave Temples of India, p. 171. The term Dagoba, which is generally restricted to a stupa cut out of the solid rock in caves, is derived, according to the authors of the Cave Temples of India, from dhatugarbha or dhdtugopa, which is the term for...

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