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Modern Review February 1928

1928

stupa at Satdhara contained the relics of the saint Saripntra the contemporary and the favourite of Gautama Buddha and that of his companion Mahamaudgalyayana.3 The second stupa at Sonari contained the relics of the celebrated saint Majjhima and of Kaundiniputra the missionary to the Hilaynn regions.' The relic box found hi the stupa at Manikyala contained a number of relics.6 Many later stup [...] This can also be seen in the little stupa dicovered in the interior of the supposed stupa of Kunala where the pedestal is square the drum almost as high as the hemisphere and the latter irregular in shape 13 Connected with the increase in the height of the drum of the stupa is the beginning of a very important development in Indian plastic art e. g the decoration of the stupa and its compon [...] mong the former may be mentioned the famous bas-reliefs from the drum of the stupa discovered at Sikriu but now in the Lahore Museum and the small stuns from Loriyan Tangai represents the second class.►5 Another development in stupa architecture was the additions of a shrine in the form of a niche or still on one side of the drum of the stupa. [...] Over the hemisphere WAR placed a square a abacus or harmilaz for the reception of the pennon of the urch►ellas The square pedestal was called the nzedhi and in larger specimens it was approach.d on four sides by four flights of steps the drum and the dome were known as the Anda or the egg and the abactr harmika The seven umbrellas were often called Chhatrara/i. [...] But with the chime in the form of the religion the sacred architecture of these countries did not change and the bell-shaped drum and the hemisphere of the Burmese Pagoda is a direct devolopmeat of the old Promo stupas25 in which the sides of the drum became sloping instead of being perpendicular in order to enable them to bear the additional thrust of the brick in mud masonry of the later daga
government politics public policy
Pages
142
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.120016
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
i-129 Ramananda Chatterjee view
India’s Illiteraoy : Should It Bar Self-Rule?
130-133 J.T. Sunderland view
Megalomania in Literature
134-139 Nagfndranath Gupta view
Stupas or Ohaityas
139-144 R.D. Banerji view
Industry and Politics
144-146 K.N. Chatterji view
A Plea for Educational Reform in India
147-152 Kamala Bose view
The Milwaukeejournal : A Newspaper for Service
152-155 Sudhindra Bose view
The International Soil Science Congress
155-157 P.G. Krishna view
Opium
157-159 Taraknath Das view
A Review of the Indian Problem in South Afrcia
160-169 P.S. Aiyar view
The German Wandervogels
169-177 Durga Raychaudhuri view
An Indian Painper-Engraver
177-180 Suniti Chatteji view
Reviews and Notices of Books
181-191 unknown view
Thomas Hardy
191-195 N.K. Siddhanta view
Indian Womanhood
196-199 unknown view
Comment & Criticism
200-201 unknown view
Gleanings
202-207 unknown view
Soviet Russia
207-212 Ramananda Chatterjee view
Indian Periodicals
213-220 unknown view
Foreign Periodicals
221-228 unknown view
Indians Abriad
229-231 Benarsidas Chaturvedi view
Illiteracy and Self-Rule
231-233 Ramananda Chatterjee view
Notes
234-252 unknown view