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  2. Lion Capital of Ashoka - Wikipedia

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    The Lion Capital of Ashoka is the capital, or head, of a column erected by the Mauryan emperor Ashoka in Sarnath, India, c. 250 BCE. Its crowning features [ 1 ] are four life-sized lions set back to back on a drum-shaped abacus .

  3. Buddha Preaching his First Sermon (Sarnath) - Wikipedia

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    The Buddha Preaching his First Sermon is a stone sculpture of the 5th-century CE showing Gautama Buddha in the "teaching posture" or dharmachakra pravartana mudrā. [2] The relief is 5' 3" tall, and was excavated at Sarnath, India by F. O. Oertel during the 1904–1905 excavation season of the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI); it was found in an area to the south of the Dhamek Stupa.

  4. Sarnath Museum - Wikipedia

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    Sarnath Museum is the oldest site museum of the Archaeological Survey of India. It houses the findings and excavations at the archaeological site of Sarnath , by the Archaeological Survey of India. Sarnath is located near Varanasi , in the state of Uttar Pradesh .

  5. Sarnath - Wikipedia

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    A standing Buddha statue, 24.3 metres (80 feet) in height, inspired by the Buddhas of Bamiyan, [69] is located on the grounds of the Thai temple and monastery at Sarnath. [70] Construction began in 1997, and the statue was finally unveiled in 2011.

  6. Pillars of Ashoka - Wikipedia

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    The abacus would then adopt the Hamsa goose as an animal decorative symbol, in Lauria Nandangarh and the Rampurva lion. Sanchi and Sarnath would mark the culmination with four animals back-to-back instead of just one, and a new and sophisticated animal and symbolic abacus (the elephant, the bull, the lion, the horse alternating with the Dharma ...

  7. State Emblem of India - Wikipedia

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    The emblem is an adaptation of the Lion Capital of Ashoka, an ancient sculpture dating back to 280 BCE during the Maurya Empire. The statue is a three dimensional emblem showing four lions. It became the emblem of the Dominion of India in December 1947, [1] and later the emblem of the Republic of India. The State Emblem of India is an official ...

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