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The text related to the cultural heritage 'Buddhist Monuments at Sanchi' has mentioned 'Temple' in the following places:
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| Contents 1 Overview 2 Maurya Period (3rd century BCE) 2.1 Ashoka pillar 2.2 Temple 40 3 Shunga period (2nd century BCE) 3.1 Great Stupa (No 1) 3.2 Stupa No. | WIKI |
| 3 3.4 Sunga Pillar 4 Satavahana period (1st century BCE xe2x80x93 1st century CE) 4.1 Material and carving technique 4.2 Architecture: evolution of the load-bearing pillar capital 4.3 Main themes of the reliefs 4.3.1 Jatakas 4.3.2 Miracles 4.3.3 Temptation of the Buddha 4.3.4 War over the Buddha's Relics 4.3.5 Removal of the relics by Ashoka 4.3.6 Building of the Bodh Gaya temple by Ashoka 4.3.7 Foreign devotees 4.3.8 Aniconism 4.4 The Gateways or Toranas 4.4.1 Stupa 1 Southern Gateway 4.4.2 Stupa 1 Northern Gateway 4.4.3 Stupa 1 Eastern Gateway 4.4.4 Stupa 1 Western Gateway 4.4.5 Stupa 3 Southern Gateway 5 Later periods 5.1 Western Satraps 5.2 Guptas 5.3 Lion pillar No 26 5.4 Pillar 35 6 Sanchi and the Greco-Buddhist art of Gandhara 7 Western rediscovery 8 Chetiyagiri Vihara and the Sacred Relics 9 Inscriptions 10 See also 11 References 12 Literature 13 External links | WIKI |
| Simultaneously, various temple structures were also built, down to the Gupta Empire period and later. | WIKI |
| Temple 40[edit] | WIKI |
| Sanchi Temple 40 was a 3rd-century BCE temple, one of the first known in India, constructed around the same time as the core of the Great Stupa.Conjectural reconstruction of the original timber-built Temple 40, burnt down in the 2nd century BCE. | WIKI |
| Another structure which has been dated, at least partially, to the 3rd century BCE, is the so-called Temple 40, one of the first instances of free-standing temples in India. | WIKI |
| [15] Temple 40 has remains of three different periods, the earliest period dating to the Maurya age, which probably makes it contemporary to the creation of the Great Stupa. | 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 |
| Building of the Bodh Gaya temple by Ashoka[edit] | WIKI |
| Bodhi tree temple depicted in Sanchi, Stupa 1, Southern gateway. | WIKI |
| As a consequence, Ashoka endeavoured to take care of the Bodhi Tree, and built a temple around it. | WIKI |
| This temple became the center of Bodh Gaya. | WIKI |
| Then the relief above shows the Bodhi Tree prospering inside its new temple. | WIKI |
| Numerous other sculptures at Sanchi show scenes of devotion towards the Bodhi Tree, and the Bodhi Tree inside its temple at Bodh Gaya. | WIKI |
| Other versions of the relief depicting the temple for the Bodhi Tree are visible at Sanchi, such as the Temple for the Bodhi Tree (Eastern Gateway). | WIKI |
| The temple around the Bodhi Tree (the pipal tree beneath which the Buddha had attained enlightenment) was erected by Asoka himself. | WIKI |
| This Temple is hypaethral. | WIKI |
| He would thereafter build a temple around the tree, seen in the panel above, and which would become the sacred temple of Bodh Gaya. | WIKI |
| Temple for the Bodhi Tree in Bodh Gaya. | WIKI |
| The illumination of the Buddha occurred here under the Bodhi Tree at Bodh Gaya, and Asoka built a Diamond throne at the location, as well as a temple to protect the Bodhi Tree within. | WIKI |
| To right and left of the temple are four figures in an attitude of adoration, perhaps the Guardian Kings of the Four Quarters (Lokapalas). | WIKI |
| On either side of the temple are the Brahmanical ascetics standing in an attitude of respect and veneration. | WIKI |
| The temple at Bodh Gaya, which enclosed the Bodhi tree, was built two centuries later by Emperor Ashoka. | WIKI |
| Temple 17: a Gupta period tetrastyle prostyle temple of Classical appearance. | WIKI |
| Temple 17 is an early stand-alone temple (following the great cave temples of Indian rock-cut architecture), as it dates to the early Gupta period (probably first quarter of 5th century CE). | WIKI |
| It may have been built for Buddhist use (which is not certain), but the type of which it represents a very early version was to become very significant in Hindu temple architecture. | WIKI |
| The interior and three sides of the exterior are plain and undecorated but the front and the pillars are elegantly carved, giving the temple an almost 'classical' appearance,[120] not unlike the 2nd century rock-cut cave temples of the Nasik Caves. | WIKI |
| Next to Temple 17 stands Temple 18, the framework of a mostly 7th-century apsidal chaitya-hall temple, again perhaps Buddhist or Hindu, that was rebuilt over an earlier hall. | WIKI |
| Gupta period remains A Seated Buddha statue (Gupta temple). | WIKI |
| Temple 18 at Sanchi, an apsidal hall with Maurya foundations, rebuilt at the time of Harsha (7th century CE). | WIKI |
| Temple 45 was the last Buddhist temple built during the mid to late 9th century. | WIKI |
| Temple 18 in 1861. | WIKI |
| But a new temple Chetiyagiri Vihara was constructed to house the relics, in 1952. | WIKI |