...beside a square pedestal of large stones. He also ascribes its destruction to gunpowder.1 There thé five pieces remained undisturbed for upwards of a...sketched by Padre Tieffenthaler in the middle of the next century.* It then stood in the middle of the fort. The great inscription of Asoka, containing the same...

...furnished to Prinsep, who published copies of them and compared the text with that of the other pillars.1 But the impressions must have been imperfect, as the...disappeared many centuries ago, as when the pillar was re-crcctcd by Jahangir in AD 1G05, it was crowned by a globe, surmounted by a cone, as described and...

...without cement 2. The circular abacus of the Allahabad pillar is decorated, instead of the geese, with a graceful scroll of alternate lotus and honeysuckle, resting on a beaded astragalus moulding, perhaps of Greek origin 3. Asoka's monoliths frequently are placed in situations hundreds...

...quarries which supplied them. The abacus sometimes represents a row of geese picking their food, or "a graceful scroll of alternate lotus and honey-suckle, resting on a beaded astragalus moulding, perhaps of Greek origin." The two pillars now at Delhi were removed in 1356 AD by Firoz Shah...

...quarries which supplied them. The abacus sometimes represents a row of geese picking their food, or " a graceful scroll of alternate lotus and honey-suckle, resting on a beaded astragalus moulding, perhaps of Greek origin." The two pillars now at Delhi were removed in 1356 AD by Ffroz Shah...