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Memoirs of the Archæological Survey of India. Excavations at Taxila. The Stupas and Monasteries at Jaulian

1921

In the 'monastery area the open quadrangle and the outside edge of the surrounding plinth to a width of some six feet had a rough pavement of limstone ; the floors of the rest of the plinth and of the cells were of mud and small gravel (bajri) well rammed and the floor of the image chapel was of the same materials but coated with lime plaster. [...] On the other hand the irregularity in the plan of the lower court is due to the shape of the hill-top the chapels on the northern side following the edge of the plateau instead of forming a right angle with those on the East. [...] The total number of chapels in the three courts appears to have been 59 namely 31 in the lower and western courts and 28 in the upper in addition to two at the entrance to the r monastery and one inside it but the number in the upper stiipa court is not quite certain since all except one on the south side hae.; collapsed down the hill-side and owing to the variation in the size of the others [...] These two chapels are situated between the lower stiipa court and the monastery immediately ;to the left of the entrance to the latter and thanks to the constricted space and the strength of the adjoining walls contain the most perfectly preserved group of images on the whole site. [...] The other variety is the semi-ashlar work which is employed for later additions and repairs (notably on the north side of the Assembly Hall the wall of which appears to have collapsed and in all the adjoining rooms on this side of the monastery) for the casings of the door frames and repairs in the cells and for the base of the niche in front of cell 25.
anthropology archaeology
Pages
112
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.100116
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
i-iv John Marshall view
Excavations at Taxila the Stupas and Monastery at Jaulian
1-21 John Marshall view
The Decoration of the Stuccoed Stupas
22-39 A. Foucher view
List of Objects Found at Jaulian
40-57 V. Aiyar view
List of Coins Found at Jaulian
58-65 John Marshall view
The Jaulian Manuscript
66-75 Ramaprasad Chanda view
Index
i-iv Ramaprasad Chanda view
Plates
i-xxix John Marshall view

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