Indian Monuments

admiration Ajanta Alexander Amaravati ancient antiquity appeared architecture Arikkamedu artefacts artist Asiatic Society Asiatick Researches Asoka beautiful Bengal Bharhut Bombay Brahmin brick British Buddha Buddha Gaya Buddhist building built Burgess Calcutta called carved caves century A.D. chaitya Chambers coast Cunningham Delhi discovery Elephanta elephants Ellora epigraph European excavations feet Fergusson figures foreign four fragments Government Heber hill Hindu Hiuen-tsang hundred India Indian art Indian monuments inscriptions Kailasa Kaliyal Kanheri king Konarak Krishna large number later Lord Mackenzie Madras Mamallapuram mandapa miles modern monastery monks mound mountain Museum Nagarjunakonda Nalanda ornamented Pagodas paintings Pallava Pataliputra pilgrims pillars Portuguese priests Pumpuhar Rathas rock temples roof Royal Asiatic Society ruins Sadras Sanchi Sanskrit Sarnath Satavahanas says scholar sculptures Seely Seven Pagodas shrine slabs stone story structure stupa travellers Trimurthi vihara village visited visitors walls worship writes wrote Yavanas