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This change is probably in the main to be ascribed to Asoka. Hiuen Tsiang records the tradition that he built a masonry wall round the capital, replacing the old wooden palisade which con- tented the founder of the Maurya empire ^. Although this is the only recorded instance of the substitution of brick or stone for timber, it is probably a symbol of a general transformation, for no certain example of any masonry building older than Asoka's time, except a few very plain stUi'pas, is known to ex...ist. The stlipa, ' See Cunningham, Beports, i. 243, iii. 97, 100; v. 189; V. A. Smith, ' Graeco-Eoman Influence on the Civilization of Ancient India,' in Journal As. Soc. Bengal, Part i. (1889) ; and Perrot and Chipiez, History of Art in Persia, pp. 86 to 120.
"^ Beal, ii. 85.
112 ASOKA or sacred cupola, itself is, of course, an exception to the statement that Maurya architecture followed wooden forms, the stUpa being obviously a development of the earthen tumulus. The ornamental railings which surrounded the principal stilpas, and the toran gate- ways of those railings, are in every feature and every detail copies of woodwork.
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This change is probably in the main to be ascribed to Asoka. Hiuen Tsiang records the tradition that he built a masonry wall round the capital, replacing the old wooden palisade which con- tented the founder of the Maurya empire ^. Although this is the only recorded instance of the substitution of brick or stone for timber, it is probably a symbol of a general transformation, for no certain example of any masonry building older than Asoka's time, except a few very plain stUi'pas, is known to ex...ist. The stlipa, ' See Cunningham, Beports, i. 243, iii. 97, 100; v. 189; V. A. Smith, ' Graeco-Eoman Influence on the Civilization of Ancient India,' in Journal As. Soc. Bengal, Part i. (1889) ; and Perrot and Chipiez, History of Art in Persia, pp. 86 to 120.
"^ Beal, ii. 85.
112 ASOKA or sacred cupola, itself is, of course, an exception to the statement that Maurya architecture followed wooden forms, the stUpa being obviously a development of the earthen tumulus. The ornamental railings which surrounded the principal stilpas, and the toran gate- ways of those railings, are in every feature and every detail copies of woodwork.
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