Bharhut
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Bharhut is a village in the Satna district of Madhya Pradesh, central India. It is known for a Buddhist stupa, unique in that each panel is explicitly labelled in Brahmi characters saying what the pan
Top: Original layout of the Bharhut stupa. Bottom: East Gateway and Railings, Red Sandstone, Bharhut Stupa, 125–75 BCE. Indian Museum, Kolkata.
Bharhut stupa original layout
The Bharhut stupa, depicted on one of the friezes. Freer Gallery of Art
The Dhanabhuti inscription
Shunga Empire
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The Shunga Empire was a ruling entity centred around Magadha and controlled most of the northern Indian subcontinent from around 187 to 75 BCE. The dynasty was established by Pushyamitra, after taking
Bharhut
…different from the Lal Pahad inscription of AD 1158 mentioning the Kalachiri kings. Some recent reevaluations have tended to uncouple Bharhut from the Shunga period, and rather attribute the stupa to the 1st century CE, based on artistic similarities with better dated Mathura art and a questioning of the antiquity…
Man on a relief, Bharhut, Shunga period.
Shunga horseman, Bharhut.
Shunga period stupa at Sanchi.