So I'm here this weekend. Sanchi Stupa in Madhya Pradesh. A UNESCO World Heritage site and glowing example of syncretic cultural growth. Built by Emperor Ashoka, and embellished by the Sungas, Satavahanas, Guptas and Parmaras 🤩🤩
The most magnificent part of the Sanchi Stupa are the Ornamental Toranas or the Gateways. Four of them facing the four Cardinal directions 🤩 #Sanchi #ThisHeartWasMeantToWander
Lucky to have a 200 Rupees note on me. Could get this pic 🤩😄😄
History lovers would appreciate it. This broken pillar is the among the famous 3 Schism Edicts of Ashoka (Sanchi, Sarnath and Allahabad). Here, Emperor Ashoka warns of dissent with the Sangha and threatens dissenters with explosion
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The ruined monasteries around the Sanchi stupa complex. Built over millenia of history by various Hindu and Buddhist emperors, some of them outsiders like the Parthians and the Scythians #Sanchi
Don't miss the Archeological Museum at Sanchi. Just a Rs 5 entry for this Marvel in a nutshell. And witness the wonder of the Sanchi Lion Capital. Shimmering in Mauryan polish, these Ashokan lions stand atop a panel of geese and Madhumalti (Rangoon creeper) flowers #Sanchi
The other attraction is the smaller Gupta era Lion Capital. It has a partially broken Dharma Chakra Wheel atop it. The Sanchi Museum takes you almost two millennia and a half back within 15 minutes 🤩
The Museum's photogallery offers the painstaking efforts which have brought Sanchi back to the light from its condition as an abandoned forest site #Sanchi
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