Identifier: historyofallnati02wrig (find matches)
Title: A history of all nations from the earliest times; being a universal historical library
Year: 1905 (1900s)
Authors: Wright, John Henry, 1852-1908
Subjects: World history
Publisher: (Philadelphia, New York : Lea Brothers & company
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Internet Archive

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s inSouthern India; it is furthermore identical with the Buddhist in-scribed pillars called in Hindustan lat, examples of which are foundin Dellii (Indraprastha) and in Allahabad (Prayaga, or Pratishthana).The lat of this latter city has preserved only the lowest portion ofits capital, an abacus on which is carved an Assyrio-Greek orna-ment of honeysuckle and lotus. It is covered with inscriptions ofSamudragupta (third century of our era). The lat at Delhi is ofcast-iron. The temple at Ellora, dedicated to the Vigvakarman, or world-architect, containing an image of Buddha, is of the seventhand eighth centuries; the temple in Kanheri, on the island of Sal-sette in Bombay harbor, erected in a corrupt style, is an imitation ofthe grotto of Karli. An inscription names, probably as architect,the worshipful Bodliika ( monk), and an overseer, Skandaraki(Xenagoras?). A temple-grotto, which however is not Buddliist, is in ;;;;i!iiii:!ill!lll!lii>liHrii!l!llii;!li>!li1lllll;;l(;;;;;;l;;;;
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