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- 1 - notes (conta)
- Dr. H. Sarkar, of New Delhi, kindly informed me at the conference on The Shastric Tradition in the Indian Arts held at Heidelberg in July 1986 of an article by Dr. A. Ghosh and himself entitled "Beginnings of sculptural Art in South-east Asia: a stele from Amaravati", in: Ancient India 20–21 (1966), pp. 168–177, esp. p. 172 and plate XL showing the caitya-arched entrance of a building with a vaulted roof with three pinnacles. Inside there is a pair of Buddha-pāda. The left upper corner over the roof bears an inscription saying (Vesalliya (-ye) viharati Mahāvane kuợaga[ra-sallaya '(The Lord) dwells in the kūțāgāra-cottage in Mahāvana at Vaiśāli.' This seems to be the oldest representation extant of a kūțågara inscriptionally defined as such.