Takht-i-Bahi: View of monastery
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Rowland, Benjamin
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At isolated site not far from Peshawar, near supposed location of Parthian Gondophares' capital, The basis of the plan is a series of connected courts open to the sky, surrounded either by cells for accommodation of monks or by niches to house the devotional objects of the monastery, Larger chambers served as assembly halls or refectories, Some of the outdoor enclosures are crowded with stupas of varying sizes, the gifts of individual donors, clustered around a larger stupa that contained the principal relic, The buildings are constructed of stones of varying sizes arranged in diaper fashion, Certain elements, like the heavy overhanging cornices of the niches, are obvious imitations of prototypes in thatch, We must imagine that originally the entire surface of this stone fabric, together with the statuary it housed, was covered with a heavy layer of lime plaster, richly polychromed and gilded,
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Gandhara, Archaeology & Architecture, Takht-i-Bahi, architecture, book scan
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