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Description	Identifier: historyofallnati02wrig Title: A history of all nations from the earliest times; being a universal historical library Year: 1905 (1900s) Authors: Wright, John Henry, 1852-1908 Subjects: World history Publisher: [Philadelphia, New York : Lea Brothers & company Contributing Library: University of California Libraries Digitizing Sponsor: Internet Archive View Book Page: Book Viewer About This Book: Catalog Entry View All Images: All Images From Book Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book. Text Appearing Before Image: elHptical wdndows beneath the cornice of the flat roofing.Over the shrine a great umbrella was placed; on a shrine foundwithin the tope of Manikyala four were affixed, one above another.Around the building runs a gallery, and from it a passageway leadsto the socle. The same is surrounded by a parapet of stone, whichw^as made to imitate w^ooden banisters; similarly the four stonegates in this banister imitate a superstructure of wood translatedinto stone. Two pillars have ele\|)hants as cajiitals ; and there areposts again which are bound together by three stone cross-beams,like the entrances to the temples in China, and before the numerousShinto temples in Japan. The entire portal of Sanchi was adornedwith sculptures by King Ananda, in the first century of our era.These represent the Buddhist ritual, the adoration of relics, the 316 INDIA IN ANTIQUITV ])rayer to the Bodhi or fig-tree, under which Buddha received eidight-enment, the adoration of the Dlianimachaka, or wheel of the law, Text Appearing After Image: Fig. 85. — Sculptures at Sanchi. Cultus of the Chakra, or Wheel of the Law. (After Fergusson.) sjonbol of the wide-spreading religion (Fig. 85). We also findrepresented the domestic and civic life of the people, together with ^/C^,/^l/^^/^ Note About Images Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work.
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