Sarnath (also known as Deer Park, Sarangnath, Isipatana Deer Park, Rishipattana, Migadaya, or Mrigadava) is a town northeast of Varanasi, in Uttar Pradesh...
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Lion Capital of Ashoka (redirect from Lion of Sarnath)
capital, or head, of a column erected by the Mauryan emperor Ashoka in Sarnath, India, c. 250 BCE. Its crowning features are four life-sized lions set...
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Sarnath Museum is the oldest site museum of the Archaeological Survey of India. It houses the findings and excavations at the archaeological site of Sarnath...
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pravartana mudrā. The relief is 160 cm (5 ft 3 in) tall, and was excavated at Sarnath, India by F. O. Oertel during the 1904–1905 excavation season of the Archaeological...
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Sarnath Banerjee (born 1972) is an Indian graphic novelist, artist, filmmaker and co-founder of the comics publishing house, Phantomville. Banerjee was...
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"The Doom That Came to Sarnath" (1920) is a fantasy short story by American writer H. P. Lovecraft. It is written in a mythic/fantasy style and is associated...
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(Seattle: Sarnath Press, 2022) Collected Essays and Journalism: Volume 2: 1869–1870, David E. Schultz and S. T. Joshi, eds. (Seattle: Sarnath Press, 2022)...
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Gupta art (redirect from Sarnath school)
influence. Other centres emerged during the period, especially at Sarnath. Both Mathura and Sarnath exported sculpture to other parts of northern India. It is...
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Sarnath Jain Tirth, also called the Shreyanshnath Jain Pilgrimage, is a group of Jain temples in Sarnath. They are located near Dhamek Stupa. Simhapuri...
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The Sarnath capital is a pillar capital, sometimes also described as a "stone bracket", discovered in the archaeological excavations at the ancient Buddhist...
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Persepolis have similarities, and the "rather cold, hieratic style" of the Sarnath Lion Capital of Ashoka especially shows "obvious Achaemenid and Sargonid...
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Kramaditya was an emperor of the Gupta Empire. An image of Gautama Buddha at Sarnath notes that he succeeded Purugupta who was most likely his father. He was...
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(Hindi: डियर पार्क) is a mini zoo in Sarnath, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India. Deer Park is also known as Sarnath Deer Park (Hindi: सारनाथ डियर पार्क)...
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temples across the city attract pilgrims. The ghats and the Buddhist site Sarnath attract tourists from abroad. Varanasi is one of the oldest cities in the...
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of the chief gods worshipped in doomed Sarnath along with Zo-Kalar and Lobon. ("The Doom That Came to Sarnath;" H. P. Lovecraft's Dreamlands, "Wizards...
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Dhamek Stupa (category Sarnath)
spelled Dhamekh and Dhamekha) is a massive stupa located in Deer Park at Sarnath in the state of Uttar Pradesh, India. One of the eight most important pilgrimage...
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Buddhists in honour of the Buddha, who gave his first sermon on this day at Sarnath, Uttar Pradesh, India. In the yogic tradition, the day is celebrated as...
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15160 Sarnath Express is a legendary express train belonging to North Eastern Railway connecting Chhapra Junction with Durg Junction. Sarnath Express...
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Uttar Pradesh Expressways Industrial Development Authority (redirect from Kushinagar-Sarnath Expressway)
The Uttar Pradesh Expressways Industrial Development Authority (UPEIDA), headquartered at Paryatan Bhawan in Gomti Nagar in Lucknow, is an land acquisition...
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Bala Bodhisattva (redirect from Sarnath Bala Boddhisattva)
found in 1904–1905 by German archaeologist F.O. Oertel (1862–1942) in Sarnath, India. The statue has been decisive in matching the reign of Kanishka...
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statue of a Standing Buddha from Sarnath, Uttar Pradesh, (during the Gupta period) is made. It is now kept at the Sarnath Museum in India (source states...
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Tourism in Uttar Pradesh (section Varanasi and Sarnath)
Mahal Observatory Tulsi Ghat Sarnath Museum Dhamek Stupa, Sarnath Archaeological Buddhist Remains, Sarnath Golden Temple, Sarnath Etawah Safari Park's entrance...
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this dynasty was Vallabharāja whose rule of Bodh Gaya is confirmed by the Sarnath inscription of his daughter, Kumaradevi in the 12th century. Kumaradevi...
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sculpture is Buddhist, either excavated from Buddhist stupas such as Sanchi, Sarnath and Amaravati, or is rock cut reliefs at sites such as Ajanta, Karla and...
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Buddhism in India, and to restore the ancient Buddhist shrines at Bodh Gaya, Sarnath and Kushinara. The restoration and revival of the glory and sanctity of...
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gray stones are etched with signs and where rise the ruins of the great Sarnath. The South, home of the isle of Oriab and the areas known as the Fantastic...
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behest of the Mauryan emperor Ashoka. According to Benjamin Rowland: ”The Sārnāth column may be interpreted, therefore, not only as a glorification of the...
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sermon at Sarnath, on a thick cushion supported on a seat with moulded legs." Eck (1982, p. 63): "In the most famous of these images in the Sarnath museum...
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waters of a lake which bordered both Ib and the city of Sarnath. When the humans of Sarnath cruelly slaughtered the populace of Ib and stole the god's...
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Lion Capital of Ashoka, a sculpture that was originally erected at the Sarnath, a place where Gautama Buddha first taught the Dharma, now in Uttar Pradesh...
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