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The Evolution of the Caitya-g峁沬ha 5 The only extant stupa of a probable pre-A艣okan date
(about 450 B. C.) is that at Piprawa ( Dist. Basti, U. P ).
The stupa is built of large bricks and has a diameter of 34.8
meters and an extant height of 6.4 meters, indicating a low
ratio of height to diameter, which is a sign of antiquity.
According to the inscription the relics found in the st奴pa
pertained to Buddha himself."
A series of low flattish st奴pas, fifteen in number composed
of mud or mud-bricks with baked brick-revetments, standing
at Lauriy膩s may be regarded roughly, contemporary with the
Piprawa stupa.鈦�
(b) The St奴pas of The Mauryan Period (c. 322 B. C. 185 B. C.)
With the probable exception of the Piprawa Stupa and the
St奴pas of Lauriya, the earliest examples composed of mud or
mud-bricks, A艣oka (c. 273-232 B. C.) is credited with the
construction of a circular tumulus or st奴pas of brick in many
It appears that after the division had been made, a messenger, of
the Mauryas of Pippalivana came for portion of the relics. As there
was nothing left, he took pieces of coal which the Mauryans began to
revere and placed in a st奴pa. Thus, originally there were eight st奴pas :
in Rajagriha, Vai艣膩li. Kapilavastu, Allakapa, Ramagr膩ma, Vethadipa,
P膩v膩 and Ku艣inagara, besides those erected by Brh膩ma峁嘺 Dro峁嘺 and
the Mauryans of Pippalivana.
Bapat P. V. ' 2500 years of Buddhism.' P. 279.
6. W. C. Peppe and V. A. Smith, the Piprahwa stupa, containing
relics of Buddha. JRAS, 1898 pp. 537 ff.
7. Al. p. 79.
8. One of the two villages of same name in District Champaran. N. Bihar.
ARASI 1906-07 (1909) pp 119 ff; 1935-36 (1938) pp. 55. ff.
9. Al. p. 79