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    Bimaran is a locality, 11 km west of Jalalabad in Afghanistan. It is well known for the discovery of the Bimaran casket in one of the stupas (stupa Nb...
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    The Bimaran casket or Bimaran reliquary is a small gold reliquary for Buddhist relics that was removed from inside the stupa no.2 at Bimaran, near Jalalabad...
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    Hellenistic examples found in earlier layers. Azes is connected to the Bimaran casket, one of the earliest representations of the Buddha. The reliquary...
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    connected to the Bimaran casket, one of the earliest representations of the Buddha. The casket was part of the deposit of Stupa 2 in Bimaran, near Jalalabad...
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    New York: Alfred A. Knopf Inc. pp. 85–86. ISBN 978-0-679-42600-4. "The Bimaran Reliquary, a Gandharan work, which is now housed in the British Museum...
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    a tō. Two famous very early excavated reliquaries are the 1st-century Bimaran Casket and the Kanishka Casket of 127 AD, both believed to have contained...
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    gateways to the Great Stupa at Sanchi, central India, (1st century AD) Bimaran Casket and Wardak Vase, reliquaries from ancient stupas in Afghanistan...
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    The Stupa Nb.2 at Bimaran, where the Bimaran reliquary was excavated. Drawing by Charles Masson....
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    anthropomorphic representation of the Buddha that we know so far, the Bimaran reliquary Verma, Archana (2007). Cultural and Visual Flux at Early Historical...
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  • reliquary from Passani Stupa No.2, 1st century CE. The Stupa Nb.2 at Bimaran, where the Bimaran casket was excavated. Drawing by Charles Masson. Nangarhar Province...
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    portions was placed in a reliquary (such as the Kanishka casket or the Bimaran casket) and buried in a tumulus. These tumuli have been expanded or reconstructed...
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    portions was placed in a reliquary (such as the Kanishka casket or the Bimaran casket) and buried in a tumulus. These tumuli have been expanded or reconstructed...
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  • at Qocho Penjikent murals Sampul tapestry Sogdian Daēnās Oxus Treasure Bimaran Casket Buddhas of Bamiyan Kabul hoard Aramaic Inscription of Laghman Kandahar...
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    Amaravati Marbles Ambika Statue from Dhar Amitābha Buddha from Hancui Bimaran casket Buddhapad Hoard Mogao Christian painting David Vases Dhaneswar Khera...
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    Missorium of Theodosius I, Lomellini Ewer and Basin. Gold: Berlin Gold Hat, Bimaran casket, Panagyurishte Treasure Glass: Portland Vase, Lycurgus Cup Rock...
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    at Qocho Penjikent murals Sampul tapestry Sogdian Daēnās Oxus Treasure Bimaran Casket Buddhas of Bamiyan Kabul hoard Aramaic Inscription of Laghman Kandahar...
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    dedications. Unworn coins of Kharahostes, or his son Mujatria, were found in the Bimaran casket, suggesting the dedication was made during his rule or that of his...
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    at Qocho Penjikent murals Sampul tapestry Sogdian Daēnās Oxus Treasure Bimaran Casket Buddhas of Bamiyan Kabul hoard Aramaic Inscription of Laghman Kandahar...
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    casket, 2nd century CE Hamsa birds between the architectural spires on the Bimaran casket, 1st century CE Saraswati with a hamsa (c. 1895, British Library)...
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    it one of the earliest known representations of the Buddha, after the Bimaran casket (1st century CE), and at about the same time as the Buddhist coins...
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    Indā in evening chanting such as the Udissanādiṭṭhānagāthā (Iminā). The Bimaran Casket made of gold inset with garnet, dated to be around 60 CE, but some...
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    Probable early image of a bodhisattva (Bimaran casket, 50 CE)...
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    also known, in very rigid and frontal style. Azes is connected to the Bimaran casket, one of the earliest representations of the Buddha. Alternatively...
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    at Qocho Penjikent murals Sampul tapestry Sogdian Daēnās Oxus Treasure Bimaran Casket Buddhas of Bamiyan Kabul hoard Aramaic Inscription of Laghman Kandahar...
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    at Qocho Penjikent murals Sampul tapestry Sogdian Daēnās Oxus Treasure Bimaran Casket Buddhas of Bamiyan Kabul hoard Aramaic Inscription of Laghman Kandahar...
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    at Qocho Penjikent murals Sampul tapestry Sogdian Daēnās Oxus Treasure Bimaran Casket Buddhas of Bamiyan Kabul hoard Aramaic Inscription of Laghman Kandahar...
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    at Qocho Penjikent murals Sampul tapestry Sogdian Daēnās Oxus Treasure Bimaran Casket Buddhas of Bamiyan Kabul hoard Aramaic Inscription of Laghman Kandahar...
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