The Layman Revato a Story of a Restless Mind in Buddhist India At the Time of G
The Layman Revato a Story of a Restless Mind in Buddhist India At the Time of G
Edward P Buffet
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The conversation drifted upon the buildings which the old king was erecting for sacred uses with more zeal than ever and upon the crafts manship that he had imported for this purpose from distant lands. Theretofore, the public edifices when of material more enduring than wood, had commonly been made of brick finely overlaid with chunam plaster on which were frescoed graceful devices of wreath and creeper, of ribbon or dragon s tooth and perchance a pic tured scene from hallowed story. Asoko had... sub stituted massive stone, no less elaborately, if more arduously and enduringly, adorned with carving. New forms of architecture and art began to appear; his builders returning from studienreisen to Takkasila, Sagala, Persepolis and other regions of the nearer Yonalokas, executed in timid bas-relief designs of column and capital that were strange to Magadha. Dabbo gave particulars of a subject already vaguely known to Revato, that the Emperor was now seeking to copy foreign architecture more per fectly by imparting artisans from its native countries.
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