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There is another cave with the structure and polishing qualities of the Barabar caves, but without any inscription. This is the Sitamarhi Cave, 20 km from Rajgir, 10 km south-west of Hisua, also dated of the Maurya empire. It is smaller than the Barabar caves, measuring only 4.91x3.43m, with a ceiling height of 2.01m.
082 Rock Carvings, Kawa Dol at Barabar, Bihar Photograph from the Barabar Caves in Bihar taken by Anandajoti. Date: 17 March 2013, 13:34: Source: 082 Rock Carvings, Kawa Dol: Author: Photo Dharma from Penang, Malaysia
Description: 007 Asokan Inscription at Barabar, Bihar Photograph from the Barabar Caves in Bihar taken by Anandajoti.. The photo shows one of the Nagarjuni Hill Cave inscriptions of Anantavarman Maukhari, nearly a millennium later than Aśoka (the same cave does have an Aśokan inscription too, but this is not it).
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These were first used by the Ajivikas tradition monks, later by the Buddhist monks, and thereafter the Hindu monks. This is a photograph of sketches and inscriptions from a personal copy of an article published in 1847 by Markham Kittoe about the Barabar Caves in Bihar in the The Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. This is found along ...
The Barabar caves are the first known and dated example of Mauryan polish, dedicated by Ashoka in several inscriptions, in the year 12 and the year 19 of his reign. The caves were carved from granite, an extremely hard rock, and finished with a very fine polishing of the inner surface, giving a mirror effect of great flatness, as well as an echo effect.
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