Subject: Miniature Stupa. The miniature stupa bears four niches, each with an image of Buddha performing a different gesture or mudra.
Site Name: Sarnath
Date: 900-999 CE
Subject: Miniature Stupa. The miniature stupa bears four niches, each with an image of Buddha performing a different gesture or mudra.
Site Name: Sarnath
Date: 900-999 CE
Subject: Miniature Stupa. The miniature stupa bears four niches, each with an image of Buddha performing a different gesture or mudra.
Site Name: Sarnath
Date: 900-999 CE
Subject: Miniature Stupa. The miniature stupa bears four niches, each with an image of Buddha performing a different gesture or mudra.
Site Name: Sarnath
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Subject: Detail of a miniature stupas at far eastern end of approach to Main Shrine
Site Name: Sarnath
Date:
Subject: Miniature stupas at far eastern end of approach to Main Shrine
Site Name: Sarnath
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Subject: Foundations of small stupas at the excavated site
Site Name: Sarnath
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Subject: Courtyard outside the Main Shrine
Site Name: Sarnath
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Subject: Architectural fragment, Main Shrine
Site Name: Sarnath
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Subject: View of the excavated site
Site Name: Sarnath
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Subject: Brick plinth of the temple comprising a central structure with four corner shrines (hence panchayatana, or “five-fold shrine”).
Site Name: Sarnath
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Subject: View of the temple. This is the brick plinth of a very small temple comprising a central structure with four corner shrines (hence panchayatana, or “five-fold shrine”).
Site Name: Sarnath
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Subject: Detail of a decorated panel from the plinth of the temple that is south of the approach to the Main Shrine.
Site Name: Sarnath
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Subject: Panchayatana Temple Signage
Site Name: Sarnath
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Subject: This monastery is to the west of Monastery VI. The plan has a central courtyard with cells around, out of which only one survives.
Site Name: Sarnath
Date:
Subject: This monastery is to the west of Monastery VI. The plan has a central courtyard with cells around, out of which only one survives.
Site Name: Sarnath
Date:
Subject: The monastery was first excavated by Markham Kittoe in 1851-52. There are cells large enough to accomodate a single monk located around the perimeter of a central courtyard containing a well. This monastery was probably destroyed by a fire.
Site Name: Sarnath
Date:
Subject: The monastery was first excavated by Markham Kittoe in 1851-52. There are cells large enough to accomodate a single monk located around the perimeter of a central courtyard containing a well. This monastery was probably destroyed by a fire.
Site Name: Sarnath
Date:
Subject: The monastery was first excavated by Markham Kittoe in 1851-52. There are cells large enough to accomodate a single monk located around the perimeter of a central courtyard containing a well. This monastery was probably destroyed by a fire.
Site Name: Sarnath
Date:
Subject: The monastery was first excavated by Markham Kittoe in 1851-52. There are cells large enough to accomodate a single monk located around the perimeter of a central courtyard containing a well. This monastery was probably destroyed by a fire.
Site Name: Sarnath
Date:
Subject: The monastery was first excavated by Markham Kittoe in 1851-52. There are cells large enough to accomodate a single monk located around the perimeter of a central courtyard containing a well. This monastery was probably destroyed by a fire.