Handbook for Travellers in India, Burma and Ceylon Including AllBritish India, the Portuguese and French Possessions, and the Indian StatesJ. Murray, 1952 |
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Page lxxviii
... pillars were necessarily thicker than wooden pillars , " ' base was Dressed stone appears first in the time of Asoka , in the lats or stone pillars which he caused to be erected and in a monolithic rail at Sarnath ( p . 98 ) . These ...
... pillars were necessarily thicker than wooden pillars , " ' base was Dressed stone appears first in the time of Asoka , in the lats or stone pillars which he caused to be erected and in a monolithic rail at Sarnath ( p . 98 ) . These ...
Page 566
... pillars , 60 ft . high . This forms a deep portico 36 ft . broad , and looks upon a tank 250 ft . square . The ceiling of the veranda or portico is panelled in wood and has been very handsomely painted . The whole of the W. side is occu ...
... pillars , 60 ft . high . This forms a deep portico 36 ft . broad , and looks upon a tank 250 ft . square . The ceiling of the veranda or portico is panelled in wood and has been very handsomely painted . The whole of the W. side is occu ...
Page 574
... pillars on the E. is a colossal bull . Immediately behind the main portion of the temple , to the right of the enclosure , is a Temple to Saraswati . The porch is the finest part of it ; it contains eigh- teen pillars , some of them ...
... pillars on the E. is a colossal bull . Immediately behind the main portion of the temple , to the right of the enclosure , is a Temple to Saraswati . The porch is the finest part of it ; it contains eigh- teen pillars , some of them ...
Contents
LIST OF MAPS AND PLANS xi | xi |
INTRODUCTORY INFORMATION | xvii |
2 AIR ROUTES TO INDIA AND INTERNAL | xxviii |
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