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    The Mathura lion capital is an Indo-Scythian sandstone capital (a part of a pillar) from Mathura in Northern India, dated to the first decade of the 1st...
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    The Lion Capital of Ashoka is the capital, or head, of a column erected by the Mauryan emperor Ashoka in Sarnath, India, c. 250 BCE. Its crowning features...
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  • Lion Capital may refer to: The Lion Capital of Ashoka, a sculpture used as the national emblem of India Mathura lion capital, an Indo-Scythian sandstone...
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  • Mathura, Rajuvula established the famous Mathura lion capital, now in the British Museum, which confirms the presence of Northern Satraps in Mathura,...
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    centuries later in examples such as the Mathura lion capital (1st century CE). A later capital found in Mathura dating to the 2nd or 3rd century (Kushan...
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    Satraps" who ruled in the area of Mathura in the northern Indian Subcontinent in the years around 10 CE. The Mathura lion capital was consecrated under the reign...
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    conquered the Mathura region c. 60 BCE. Some of their satraps were Hagamasha and Hagana, who were followed by Rajuvula. The Mathura lion capital, an Indo-Scythian...
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    Art of Mathura The Art of Mathura refers to a particular school of Indian art, almost entirely surviving in the form of sculpture, starting in the 2nd...
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    Rajuvula, the Great Satrap of the region from Taxila to Mathura. He is mentioned in the Mathura lion capital. Sodasa's name is recorded in Kharosthi as Śuḍasa...
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    Terracotta Gallery Statue of Victoria, Empress of India Mathura lion capital "Government Museum, Mathura". Parampara Project, Ministry of Culture, govt. of...
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  • located Mathura (Lok Sabha constituency) Mathura lion capital, Indo-Scythian sandstone capital from Mathura, dated to the 1st century CE Mathura (moth)...
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    called 𐨨𐨅𐨬𐨐𐨁 𐨨𐨁𐨩𐨁𐨐 Me-va-ki Mi-yi-ka, Mevaki Miyika in the Mathura lion capital inscription,) was the first Indo-Scythian king, ruling from 98/85...
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    archaeological relics, including the Mathura lion capital, the Bairat and Sopara Ashokan inscription, the Nanaghat reliefs, the Mathura Vishnu image, drum miniature...
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  • of Aiyasi Kamuia. She finds mention in inscription no A-5 of the Mathura Lion Capital. F. W. Thomas has read this name as Nadadi (Nadasi)- Akasa, Dr Bühler...
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    one and same historical personage. The Inscriptions A and E on the Mathura Lion Capital style Kharaosta as Yuvaraya Kharaosta Kamuio. Based on the estimates...
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    later. The Indo-Scythians are otherwise connected with Buddhism (see Mathura lion capital), and it is indeed possible they would have commended the work. Indo-Scythian...
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    possibly from an inscription on the Mathura lion capital, although another satrap Kharaostes has been discovered in Mathura. He was probably a successor of...
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    buildings in the architecture of the Maurya Empire. The much smaller Mathura lion capital of the 1st century CE shows clear influence. They can be seen in...
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    incorporated depictions of Greek deities, particularly Zeus. The Mathura lion capital inscription attests that they adopted the Buddhist faith, as do the...
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    is attested in a contemporary Kharosthi inscription found on the Mathura lion capital belonging to the Saka kingdom of the Indo-Scythians (200 BC – 400...
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    Pakistan), (1st century BC – 1st century AD) Indo-Scythian sandstone Mathura Lion Capital and Bracket figure from one of the gateways to the Great Stupa at...
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    Kakiemon elephants Kang Hou gui Kanishka casket Klang Bell Kulu Vase Mathura lion capital Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art Seated Buddha from Gandhara...
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    Saptarishi Tila statue (category Mathura art)
    Indraji, at the same time and place as another important artifact, the Mathura lion capital, dated to the beginning of the 1st century CE. The statue wears a...
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    later. The Indo-Scythians are otherwise connected with Buddhism (see Mathura lion capital and the multiple Buddhist dedications of the Apracas), and it is...
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    Pakistan. Exhibited at the British Museum in London. Mathura lion capital with addorsed lions and Prakrit inscriptions in Kharoshthi script Fragments...
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  • mentioning Patika Kusulaka, who also appears as a "Great Satrap" in the Mathura lion capital inscription. 1 [samva]tsaraye athasatatimae 20 20 20 10 4 4 maharayasa...
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    Mountain Temple inscription (category Mathura)
    inscription is likely the Northern Satraps Great Satrap Rajuvula, found in Mathura lion capital. The Mountain Temple inscription lacks a date. The similar Mora Well...
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  • Kharahostes or Kharaosta who had been known from numismatics and Mathura Lion Capital inscriptions. The Inscription no. II also establishes that king Kharaosta...
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    abaci of the Pillars of Ashoka, or the central design of the Pataliputra capital, probably through the Seleucid Empire or Hellenistic cities such as Ai-Khanoum...
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  • Architecture Materiality Mathematical tile Mathematics and architecture Mathura lion capital Matroneum Mausoleum Maya architecture Mayan Revival architecture...
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