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A GUIDE TO THE SCULPTURES
ọnụ ọgụgụ anụmanụ, nke a na-esi na isi obodo Asokan depụtaghachiri ozugbo.
N. 8. 3596 —Ihe atụ mbụ anyị kwesịrị ịtụle ugbu a bụ ihe nkedo nke isi obodo (ht.7') nke ogidi monolithic e dere ede nke Asoka guzobere na Sarnath dị nso na Benares, nke F. 0. Oertel wetara na 1904-5.
A na-echekwa ihe mbụ, nke dị n'ájá ájá na-akpụ akpụ si na Chunar, nke a na-egbu maramara nke ukwuu, ugbu a na-echekwa ya n'akụkụ abụọ: isi obodo ahụ dị na Museum na Sarnath, 1 ebe ogidi nke na-ebu iwu Asoka ka dị n'ebe ahụ, kpọmkwem ebe e wuru ya. Isi obodo ahụ nwere ọdụm anọ nọ ọdụ azụ azụ na abacus gburugburu nke a tụrụ na nnukwu enyemaka ọdụm, enyí, oke ehi na ịnyịnya na-agbagharị agbagharị, nke ọ bụla n’ime ha ji wheel kewapụrụ ibe ya. Frieze si otú a na-enye echiche nke mmegharị na-aga n'ihu, ọganihu nke Wheel of Law (Dharmachakra), na ihe niile mejupụtara dị ka a tụụrụ ime ebe a bụ ihe a na-apụghị imeri emeri na nkà ndị India dum.N'okpuru abacus bụ otu mgbịrịgba; mgbịrịgba ahụ na-atụgharị, na-enwe ọdịdị nke lotus na-agbasapụ nke nwere petals ahụ nke ọma. Okpueze ahụ dum bụ Wheel, bụ nke eweghachitekwara ụfọdụ iberibe ya.
6298-6299 - Iche ihu ihe nkedo Sarnath bụ isi ọdụm mbụ (ht.7.5') nke kọlụm ọzọ nke Asoka. (Plate I, a). Daya Ram Sahni gwuru ya na 1907-8 na Rampurwa na mpaghara Champaran nke Bihar. Kọlụm nke nwere isii nke Pillar-Edicts na-akọwa dharma ma ọ bụ ụkpụrụ ụkpụrụ Asoka, na-agha ụgha ugbu a.
‘Iberibe ole na ole, ihe àmà na-egosi na kọlụm Asokan ọzọ sitere na Sarnath, ka e gosiri n’ihe ngosi dị na Long Gallery. Lee n'okpuru p. 83.
