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Archaeological Survey of Southern India

THE BUDDHIST STUPAS OF AMARAVATI AND JAGGAYYAPETA

IN THE KRISHNA DISTRICT, MADRAS PRESIDENCY,

Surveyed in 1982,

By JAS. BURGESS, LL,D., C.I.E., F.R.G.S., M.R.A.S., &C.

Director-General of the Archaeological survey of India

With

TRANSLATOR OF THE ASOKA INSCRIPTIONS

AT JAUGADA AND DHAULI,

By GEORG BUHLER, PH.D., LL.D., C.I.E., &C.

Member of the Imperial Academy of sciences,

And Professor of Sanskrit in the University of Vienna

131 pages and 69 Plate illustrated

INDOLOGICAL BOOK HOUSE

Antiquarian booksellers & publishers

Varanani (India), 1970

CONTENTS

                        THE AMARÂVATI STŨPA.

I.                   Introduction: Early history

II.                The Excavation at Amahâvati

III.             The Stũpa and its Remains

IV.             The Sculptures of the Outer Rail: The Pillars

V.                The Cross-Bars or Rails

VI.             The coping of the Outer Rail

VII.          Earlier Sculptures

VIII.       The Inner Rail: Chaitya Slabs and Chakra Pillars

IX.             Smali, Frieze, Pillars, and Old Sculptures

X.                Slabs, &c., from the Central Stupa

XI.             Statues and Sripadas

XII.          Inscriptions

XIII.       The Jaggayyapeta Stupa

XIV.       The Asoka Inscriptions at Dhauli and Jaugada, by Prof. G. Buhler, LL.D. Ph.D., C.I, E, Vienna

PREFACE

The present volume contains the results of an examination of the remains of the Amarâvati Stupa made in December 1881 and January 1882, soon after the excavation of the site by orders of the Madras Government. By that excavation 255 slabs were laid bare, including a number that had been previously unearthed by Mr. R. Sewell, and again reburied for safety; other 44, which he had stored in a shed, and 29 slabs at Bejwâdâ Library, brought up the total to 329 of all sorts, - some of them mere fragments, with little or no sculpture upon them. To these, by some small excavations, I was able to add 90 more bearing sculptures or inscriptions, and had the time and means at my disposal allowed a systematic examination, still more might have been discovered. The following pages contain a description of specimens of each sort of slab and sculpture, including illustrations of all the larger and best preserved.

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