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SANCHI , a small See also:village in See also:India, at which there is now a railway station on the Bombay-See also:Baroda See also:line. It is famous as the site of what are almost certainly the See also:oldest buildings in India now See also:standing. They are Buddhist topes (See also:Pali. thupa; See also:Sanskrit, stupa), that is, memorial mounds, standing on the level See also:top of a small See also:sandstone See also:- HILL
- HILL (0. Eng. hyll; cf. Low Ger. hull, Mid. Dutch hul, allied to Lat. celsus, high, collis, hill, &c.)
- HILL, A
- HILL, AARON (1685-175o)
- HILL, AMBROSE POWELL
- HILL, DANIEL HARVEY (1821-1889)
- HILL, DAVID BENNETT (1843–1910)
- HILL, GEORGE BIRKBECK NORMAN (1835-1903)
- HILL, JAMES J
- HILL, JOHN (c. 1716-1775)
- HILL, MATTHEW DAVENPORT (1792-1872)
- HILL, OCTAVIA (1838– )
- HILL, ROWLAND (1744–1833)
- HILL, SIR ROWLAND (1795-1879)
hill about 300 ft. high on the See also:left See also:bank of the See also:river See also:Betwa. The number of topes on this and the adjoining hills is considerable. On the Sanchi hill itself are only ten, but one of these is by far the most important and imposing of all. All these topes were opened and examined by See also:General See also:Alexander See also:Cunningham and Lieut.-See also:Colonel Maisey in 1851; and the See also:great tope has been described and illustrated by them and by See also:- JAMES
- JAMES (Gr. 'IlrKw,l3or, the Heb. Ya`akob or Jacob)
- JAMES (JAMES FRANCIS EDWARD STUART) (1688-1766)
- JAMES, 2ND EARL OF DOUGLAS AND MAR(c. 1358–1388)
- JAMES, DAVID (1839-1893)
- JAMES, EPISTLE OF
- JAMES, GEORGE PAYNE RAINSFOP
- JAMES, HENRY (1843— )
- JAMES, JOHN ANGELL (1785-1859)
- JAMES, THOMAS (c. 1573–1629)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (1842–1910)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (d. 1827)
James See also:Fergusson. This is a solid See also:dome of See also:- STONE
- STONE (0. Eng. shin; the word is common to Teutonic languages, cf. Ger. Stein, Du. steen, Dan. and Swed. sten; the root is also seen in Gr. aria, pebble)
- STONE, CHARLES POMEROY (1824-1887)
- STONE, EDWARD JAMES (1831-1897)
- STONE, FRANK (1800-1859)
- STONE, GEORGE (1708—1764)
- STONE, LUCY [BLACKWELL] (1818-1893)
- STONE, MARCUS (184o— )
- STONE, NICHOLAS (1586-1647)
stone, about 103 ft. in See also:diameter, and now about 42 ft. high. It must formerly have been much higher, the top of the tope having originally formed a See also:terrace, 34 ft. in diameter, on which stood lofty columns. Cunningham estimates the See also:original height of the See also:building as about 100 ft. See also:Round the See also:base is a flagged pathway surrounded by a stone railing and entered at the four points of the See also:compass by gateways some 18 ft. high. Both gateways and railing are elaborately covered with bas-reliefs and See also:inscriptions. The latter give the names of the donors of particular portions of the architectural ornamentation, and most of them are written in the characters used before and after the See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time of See also:Asoka in the See also:middle of the 3rd See also:century B.C. The monuments are Buddhist, the bas-reliefs illustrate passages in the Buddhist writings, and the inscriptions make use of Buddhist technical terms. Some of the smaller topes give us names of men who lived in the See also:Buddha's time, and others give names mentioned among the missionaries sent out in the time of Asoka. It is not possible from the available data to See also:fix the exact date of any of these topes, but it may be stated that the smaller topes are probably of different See also:dates both before and after Asoka, and that it is very possible that the largest was one of three which we are told was erected by Asoka himself. The monuments at Sanchi are now under the See also:charge of the archaeological See also:department; they are being well cared for, and valuable photographs have been taken of the bas-reliefs and inscriptions. The drawings in Fergusson's See also:work entitled See also:- TREE (0. Eng. treo, treow, cf. Dan. tree, Swed. Odd, tree, trd, timber; allied forms are found in Russ. drevo, Gr. opus, oak, and 36pv, spear, Welsh derw, Irish darog, oak, and Skr. dare, wood)
- TREE, SIR HERBERT BEERBOHM (1853- )
Tree and See also:Serpent See also:Worship are very unsatisfactory, and his See also:suggestion that the carvings illustrate tree and serpent worship is quite erroneous.
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