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The Buddhist Antiquities of Nagarjunakonda

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Item Code: IDJ374
Author: A. H. Longhurst
Publisher: ARCHAEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF INDIA
Language: English
Edition: 1999
Pages: 117 (B/W Plates: 131)
Cover: Hardcover
Other Details 10.6 X 8.3"
Weight 580 gm
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Author's Note

Most of the scenes portrayed in the beautiful bas-reliefs recovered from the ruined stupas at Nagarjunakonda illustrate well-known stories from the Jataka, or incidents in the life of the Buddha and their identification is an easy matter. There are, however, a number of uncommon scenes which are difficult to identify, some of which have not been met with before in Buddhist art. This difficulty is further enhanced owing to the careless arrangement of the sculptures. For instance, a series of carved panels may illustrate a complete story from beginning to end, or on the contrary, each panel may depict a scene taken from different stories in no way related to each other. It seems that the sculptors were given a free hand in the ornamentation of the buildings at Nagarjunakonda, each man choosing his own subject as his fancy and ability dictated, just as Indian sculptors do to-day when they are employed in decorating a modern temple.

In Part I, I have described the locality, the history of the place so far as it is known, and the chief buildings and antiquities discovered during the explorations. I have to paper on the Nagarjunakonda Inscriptions published in the Epigraphia Indica Vol. XX, 1931, in giving a brief history of the site here.

I am greatly indebted to Dr. S. Paranavitana, Epigraphical Assistant to the Archaeological Commissioner, Ceylon, or the scholarly description of the interesting has-reliefs illustrated in Part II. The identification of the different scenes portrayed in these sculptures entailed a considerable of the different scenes portrayed in these sculptures entailed a considerable amount of careful research work which Dr. Paranavitana very kindly undertook in addition to his official duties. In the spelling of proper names occurring in the stories, the method adopted has been to use the Pali form when the source is a Pali text and the Sanskrit form when the story is taken from Sanskrit sources. Familiar are better known, even when the story is taken from a Pali text.

In conclusion, I would like to add that this account of the Nagarjunakonda explorations would never have been published except or the keen interest taken in the discoveries by Mr. J. F. Blakiston, late Director General of Archaeology in India, from whom I have received every encouragement and assistance in the work.

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