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BUDDHIST ARCHITECTUKE.
Book I.
nearly all have been utilised for building huts and houses of the
Hindus, or the mosques of the iconoclastic Mussulmans. Their rails,
being composed of larger stones and not so easily removed, have in
some instances remained, and some will no doubt be recovered when
looked for; and as these, in the earlier ages at least, were the
Tupe at Strnath, near Benares. (From a Photograph.)
iconostasis of the shrine, their recovery will largely compensate for
the loss of the topes which they surrounded.
The best known, as well as the best preserved of the Bengal topes,
is that at Sarnath, near Benares (Woodcut No. 14). It was carefully
explored by General Cunningham in ls;i.V;!C>, and found to be a
stupa : viz., containing no relics, but erected to mark some spot
sanctified by the presence of Buddha, or by some act of his during
BUDDHIST ARCHITECTUKE.
Book I.
nearly all have been utilised for building huts and houses of the
Hindus, or the mosques of the iconoclastic Mussulmans. Their rails,
being composed of larger stones and not so easily removed, have in
some instances remained, and some will no doubt be recovered when
looked for; and as these, in the earlier ages at least, were the
Tupe at Strnath, near Benares. (From a Photograph.)
iconostasis of the shrine, their recovery will largely compensate for
the loss of the topes which they surrounded.
The best known, as well as the best preserved of the Bengal topes,
is that at Sarnath, near Benares (Woodcut No. 14). It was carefully
explored by General Cunningham in ls;i.V;!C>, and found to be a
stupa : viz., containing no relics, but erected to mark some spot
sanctified by the presence of Buddha, or by some act of his during