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Description: | Photograph of gateway in Stupa 3, Sanchi from the Archaeological Survey of India Collections taken by Deen Dayal in 1883. Stupa 3 was originally built in the 2nd Century BC and later enlarged between the 1st Century BC and the1st Century AD. It is smaller than Stupa 1 but of great importance because some reliquary caskets inscribed with the names of two Buddha's disciples, Shariputra and Maudgalyayana, were found inside the dome. There is only one torana (1st Century AD and rebuilt in 1883) which consists of 2 square posts crowned by a group of yakshas or pot-bellied dwarfs, that support a triple architrave. The relief sculptures represent episodes from the life of Buddha. | License: | http://www.bl.uk/services/copy/permission.html | Rights holder: | British Library | Subjects: | Sacred Architecture Architecture Stupas | Source: | Collect Britain | Creator: | Dayal, Deen | Identifier: | http://www.collectbritain.co.uk/personal... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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