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And among the bas-reliefs carved on the stone railing are several topes as the sculptor of the day imagined they ought to be.
We should notice however in the first of these carvings, designed to fill up the post of a stone railing, that the artist, in order to fill up the tall and
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FIG. 14.-RESTORATION (BY W. SIMPSON) OF THE AHIN POSH TOPE. [From the Proceedings of the R. I. B. A.]
Shree Sudharmaswami Gyanbhandar-Umara, Surat
narrow space he has to deal with, has allowed himself to give a disproportionate height to the ornamentation at the top of the dome.
Even in the Buddha's time the size of these monuments had already reached very considerable dimensions. The solid dome erected by the Sakiyas over their share of the ashes from the Buddha's funeral pyre must have been about the same height
