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    Default Ashoka Pillar at Sarnath – Great Indian Monument

    Ashoka Pillar at Sarnath – Great Indian Monument




    Ashok ingredients Sarnath is one of the most famous tourist destinations visited India. The Emperor Asoka another monument and other parts of the kingdom. Date of erection and the burden of a trend is confirmed by the demands of Ashoka, This is one of the edicts of Ashoka. Command is said that the Buddhist community to achieve separation. It says: “A person should not be an order of distance like the monks at Sarnath Ashoka page, a column with a capital letter, among other things, including an inverted bell-shaped dome of the lotus flower represents a short cylindrical abacus help, where four of the 24 … The wheel of Dharma or four animals (elephant, ox, horse, lion, in that order), and four lions face the four cardinal points. four animals is considered a symbol in various stages of the life of Gautama Buddha.



    History of Feroz Shah Kotlas Ashoka no less interesting. It was taken from Topra of Ambala district. Many measures have been taken to move so it will be destroyed. The first column is wrapped in cotton silk. It was all the time, then the reed bed of rough skin. The bed was placed in a large truck with 42 wheels, 200 men on the banks of the River Yamuna. The big ships were eventually reach their final destination. Page of history is derived from the third century BC Ashoka Ashoka was served by Feroz Shah Tughlaq the site of Meerut in the decision to move to Delhi. He loved the building and why he was shot by the hunting lodge river Yamuna. Unfortunately, this majestic building is severely damaged in 1973. He broke into five pieces by the explosion of the powder. Hundreds of years ago. There was no one to repair it. Finally, in 1838.


    One of the cornerstones of high quality stone, such as metal.This magnificent structure over four meters high evidence that the site was built by Emperor Asoka. Structure of polished sandstone, the candles on top, and it was for security brahma emperor Ashoka Asoka script run more modern Hindi. Column Bramha scenario, where the ten commandments of Buddha as the time to write to the pilgrims and travelers have become a memorial show. The monument was damaged, and the seventeenth century, was completely broken into pieces. A group of friends, as they say, to restore the structure back to the glory of origin, but the official apathy was a bad influence on the components of Ashoka.

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    Default Ashoka Pillar at Saranath

    Ashoka Pillar at Saranath : Place of Buddha's first sermon. The pillar is not located in it's original location as it is broken during Turk and Islamic invasions. Now the Lion capital (National Emblem of Govt. of India) is displayed at the Archeological museum at Sarnath, 10 km from Varanasi in Uttar Pradesh. Originally a wheel (Wheel of Dharma/ Ashoka Chakra, a wheel with 24 spokes) was placed over the lion capital and was mounted on a stone pillar near Dhamek Stupa (44 m in height and 28 m in diameter), Sarnath.

    It was 15.25 m high monolithic polished Chunar sandstone pillar (0.71 m diameter at the base and 0.56 at the top) over which the Lion Capital was erected by the Mauryan Emperor Ashoka (272 - 232 BC). It has four back-to-back Indian lions. Below this are representations of a lion, an elephant, horse and the bull. The pillar bears three inscriptions in Brahmi script.






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