Early Buddhist Art
Artist: unknown
Title: Great Stupa at Sanchi (Stupa I), north gateway (torana),
detail of mangala symbols
Material: Stone
Site: Sanchi, India
Current Location: Sanchi, India
Period/Date: Sunga period (ca. 25 C.E.)
Iconography/Iconology: (Continued from previous page...) The mangalas
offer benefaction to the faithful, implicitly, by means of their having
followed the Dharma.
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