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The text related to the cultural heritage 'Buddhist Monuments at Sanchi' has mentioned 'Stone' in the following places:
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| The Great Stupa at Sanchi is one of the oldest stone structures in India, and an important monument of Indian Architecture. | WIKI |
| [6] Its nucleus was a hemispherical brick structure built over the relics of the Buddha,[6] with a raised terrace encompassing its base, and a railing and stone umbrella on the summit, the chatra, a parasol-like structure symbolizing high rank. | WIKI |
| The sandstone out of which the pillar is carved came from the quarries of Chunar several hundred miles away, implying that the builders were able to transport a block of stone over forty feet in length and weighing almost as many tons over such a distance. | WIKI |
| [16] The original 3rd century BCE temple was built on a high rectangular stone platform, 26.52xc3x9714xc3x973.35 metres, with two flights of stairs to the east and the west. | WIKI |
| Remains of the Ashokan Pillar in polished stone (right of the Southern Gateway), with its Edict. | WIKI |
| [20] The original brick stupa was covered with stone during the Shunga period. | WIKI |
| The Sungas nearly doubled the diameter of the initial stupa, encasing it in stone, and built a balustrade and a railing around it. | WIKI |
| During the later rule of the Shunga, the stupa was expanded with stone slabs to almost twice its original size. | WIKI |
| A second stone pathway at ground level was enclosed by a stone balustrade. | WIKI |
| [23] Although the railings are made up of stone, they are copied from a wooden prototype, and as John Marshall has observed the joints between the coping stones have been cut at a slant, as wood is naturally cut, and not vertically as stone should be cut. | WIKI |
| The stupas which seem to have been commissioned during the rule of the Shungas are the Second and then the Third stupas (but not the highly decorated gateways, which are from the following Satavahana period, as known from inscriptions), following the ground balustrade and stone casing of the Great Stupa (Stupa No 1). | WIKI |
| Although made of stone, the torana gateways were carved and constructed in the manner of wood and the gateways were covered with narrative sculptures. | WIKI |
| It has also been suggested that the stone reliefs were made by ivory carvers from nearby Vidisha, and an inscription on the Southern Gateway of the Great Stupa ("The Worship of the Bodhisattva's hair") was dedicated by the Guild of Ivory Carvers of Vidisha. | WIKI |
| On these stone carvings the Buddha was never depicted as a human figure, due to aniconism in Buddhism. | WIKI |
| To the left, a man and woman, the woman grinding spices on a "cari" stone; nearby, to the right, another woman is at work at a table, while a third is pounding rice with pestle and mortar, and a fourth winnowing the grain with a fan. | WIKI |
| Apart from its design, it is distinguished from the other pillars on the site by the unusual quality and colour of its stone, which is harder than that ordinarily quarried in the Udayagiri hill, and of a pale buff hue splashed and streaked with amethyst. | WIKI |
| At Sanchi this particular variety of stone was used only in monuments of the Gupta period. | WIKI |
| The columns of the Maurya period are distinguished by its exquisite dressing and highly polished surface; but in this case the dressing of the stone is characterized by no such lustrous finish. | WIKI |
| The Persepolitan capital and square abacus ornamented with a balustrade in relief are cut entire from a single block of stone. | WIKI |
| Although the initial craftsmen for stone reliefs in Sanchi seem to have come from Gandhara, with the first reliefs being carved at Sanchi Stupa No.2 circa 115 BCE,[26] the art of Sanchi thereafter developed considerably in the 1st century BCE/CE and is thought to predate the blooming of the Greco-Buddhist art of Gandhara, which went on to flourish until around the 4th century CE. | WIKI |