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A chaitya-griha (stupa hall) is a meeting or assembly often used for purposes similar to a stupa. In fact, it is not uncommon to find a stupa situated inside the interior space of a chaitya. They are largely assoiated with Buddhism. Architecturally they show similarities to Roman design concepts of column and arch. Wikipedia does not yet have an article with this exact name. ...
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A stupa A stupa (from the Sanskrit) is a type of Buddhist structure found across the Indian subcontinent and Asia. ...
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Chaitya-grihas were probably constructed to accommodate large numbers of devotees and to provide shelter for them (Mitra 1971). Early chaitya-grihas, such as at Bijak-ki-pahadi in Bairat which is ascribed to the emperor Ashoka, were built as standing structures with the stupa being surrounded by a colonnaded processional path enclosed by an outer wall with a congregation hall adjoining it (Mitra 1971). The more spectacular and more numerous chaitya-grihas, however, were cut into living rock as caves. This practice had had a long tradition Hinduism and was taken up by Buddhists in the first century BCE. Emperor Ashoka (a possible picturisation) Ashoka the Great (also Asoka, Aśoka, pronounced as Ashok-uh, not Ashokaa) was the ruler of the Mauryan empire from 273 BC to 232 BC. A convert to Buddhism, Ashoka reigned over most of the Indian subcontinent, from present day Pakistan to Bengal and as...
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The earliest rock-cut chaitya-grihas, similar to free-standing ones, consisted of an inner circular chamber with pillars to create a circumambulatory path around the stupa and an outer rectangular hall for the congregation of the devotees. Over the course of time the wall separating the stupa from the hall was removed to create an apsidal hall with a colonnade around the nave and the stupa (Dehejia 1972). The chaitya-griha at Bhaja was constructed in the first century BC. It consisted of an apsidal hall with stupa. The columns sloped inwards in the imitation of wooden columns that would have been structurally necessary to keep a roof up. The ceiling was barrel-vaulted with wooden ribs set into them. The walls were polished in the Mauryan style. It was faced by a substantial wooden facade. A large horseshoe-shaped window, the chaitya-window, was set above the arched doorway and the whole portico-area was carved to imitate a multi-storeyed building with balconies and windows and sculptured men and women who observed the scene below. This created the appearance of an ancient Indian mansion (Dehejia 1997). Chandragupta Maurya (ruled 322–298 BC), known to the Greeks as Sandracottus, was the first emperor of the Mauryan empire. ...
References
Dehejia, V. (1972). Early Buddhist Rock Temples. Thames and Hudson: London.
Dehejia, V. (1997). Indian Art. Phaidon: London.
Mitra, D., 1971. Buddhist Monuments. Sahitya Samsad: Calcutta.
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