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Identifier: handbooktravelle00john Title: A handbook for travellers in India, Burma, and Ceylon . Year: 1911 (1910s) Authors: John Murray (Firm) Subjects: India -- Guidebooks Burma -- Guidebooks Sri Lanka -- Guidebooks Publisher: London : J. Murray Calcutta : Thacker, Spink, & Co. Contributing Library: University of California Libraries Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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Text Appearing Before Image: elic buried in it.The Tope was crowned by an altaror pedestal surrounded by a rail, andmust once have been nearly 100 ft.high, but these have not beenrestored; the pillars of the railwill be noticed on the ground at 1 These are described in General Cunning-hams Bilsa Topes, i vol. 8vo. 1854; alsoin Fergussons Tree and Serpent Worship.One half of this book and forty-five of itsplates, besides woodcuts, are devoted to theillustration of the Great Tope. Casts ofthe E. gateway are in the South Kensingtonand Edinburgh Museum._ 2 General W^aSsfty^iSanchi and its Remains(in 1850-51) published in 1892, and a selectionof photographs published under the ordersof Sir Lepel Griffin, K.C.S.I., when Agentto the Governor-General for Central India,contain full illustratiotis of the tope and itssculptures. ROUTE 9. SANCHI TOPE 99 the N.E. side of the level platform.The Tope was enclosed below at adistance of 9^ ft. from it by a greatrailing slightly elliptical in shape,the diameter from W. to E. being

Text Appearing After Image: Plan. 144 ft. and from N. to S. 151 ft.The railing is formed of pillars nearly structure of three stages of cross-beams, surmounted by a wheel andother Buddhist emblems ; facing eachgateway, with its back to the wall ofthe plinth, is a large seated statue,probably representing the four lastBuddhas. The faces of the pillars ofthe gateways and of the cross-beamsare elaborately carved with a series ofmost interesting scenes, of which thefollowing are the principal. North Gateway. Pillars sur-mounted by elephants and riders.Right pillar—front face: Staircaseand Buddhist railing. Inner face:Worship of tope and trees, monkeyworshippers in one scene. Leftpillar—front face: Worship of tree,procession, scenes at fountain. Innerface: Cave temple, procession, treeworship. The Architraves bear scenesof processions with chariots, treeworship, and dagoba worship, and onthe back of giants and of hermitshuts. The floral patterns on the outersides of these pillars are noticeable. East Gateway.—P

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