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Amaravati Stupa

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  1. 01. ↑Shimada, 74

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  2. 02. Jump up to: 1 2"Archaeological Museum, Amaravati - Archaeological Survey of India".

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  3. 03. ↑PDF List from the BASAS Project

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  4. 04. ↑Pal, Pratapaditya (1986). _Indian Sculpture: Circa 500 B.C.-A.D. 700_. Los Angeles County Museum of Art. p.154\. ISBN 978-0-520-05991-7.

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  5. 05. ↑Rowland, 210

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  6. 06. Jump up to: 1 2Harle, 35

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  7. 07. ↑Harle, 34

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  8. 08. ↑South Indian transliteration differs from Hunterian transliteration, thus Amarāvatī can appear as Amarāvathī, Ratana as Rathana, etc.

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  9. 09. ↑For link to maps and plans at the British Library: The Amaravati Album

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  10. 10. ↑Pia Brancaccio, _The Buddhist Caves at Aurangabad: Transformations in Art and Religion_ (Leiden: Brill, 2011), p. 47.

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  11. 11. ↑Shimada, 66

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  12. 12. ↑See Harry Falk, _Aśokan Sites and Artefacts: A Source-Book with Bibliography_ (Mainz: Von Zabern, 2006).

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  13. 13. ↑Shimada, 72

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  14. 14. ↑Shimada, 72-74

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  15. 15. ↑see BM, 6

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  16. 16. ↑quoted, Shimada, 71, from _The Buddhist Stupar of Amaravati and Jaggayyapeta in the Krishna District, Piadras Presidency, surveyed in 1882_, published Trubner, 1887

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  17. 17. Jump up to: 1 2Shimada, 82

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  18. 18. ↑Shimada, 64, plates 5-12

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  19. 19. ↑Shimada, 82-83, for Shimada see Akira Shimada

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  20. 20. ↑Travels of Xuanzang

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  21. 21. ↑BM, 1

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  22. 22. ↑see BM, 3

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  23. 23. ↑Kilty, G _Ornament of Stainless Light_, Wisdom 2004, ISBN 0-86171-452-0

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  24. 24. ↑Becker, 6

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  25. 25. Jump up to: 1 2 3, ancientindia.co.uk, retrieved 19 December 2013

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  26. 26. ↑Erdosy, George; etal. (1995). _The archaeology of early historic South Asia: the emergence of cities and states_ (1\. publ.ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p.146\. ISBN 0521376955.

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  27. 27. ↑Amravati, PilgrimTrips, retrieved 12 January 2014

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  28. 28. ↑Government Museum Website Government Museum homepage (and then click on "Archaeology", Chennai Museum, Tamil Nadu, retrieved 11 January 2014

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  29. 29. ↑Shimada, 88

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  30. 30. ↑BM, 5

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  31. 31. Jump up to: 1 2Roy, Amit (December 1992). "Out of Amatavati". _IndiaToday_. Retrieved 21 December 2013.

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  32. 32. ↑"History in stone". _The Hindu_. 28 January 2002. Archived from the original on 14 February 2002. Retrieved 22 December 2013.

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  33. 33. ↑BM, 48-57

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  34. 34. ↑Becker, 7-9; Shimada, 71; Shimada, plates 20 and 21 illustrate both sides of an example.

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  35. 35. ↑Fisher, 40 (see 197-200 on Borobudor for why this is presumably excluded from comparison).

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  36. 36. ↑"drum-slab" (BM 1880,0709.79)

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  37. 37. ↑Shimada, 66-69, 72

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  38. 38. ↑Averaging BM 1880,0709.18 and BM 1880,0709.19

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  39. 39. ↑Shimada, 69-70

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  40. 40. ↑Shimada, 82-84

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  41. 41. ↑Government Museum, Chennai

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  42. 42. ↑BM, 2-6, 89

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  43. 43. ↑BM, 7, 97

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  44. 44. ↑Rowland, 212-213

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  45. 45. ↑Craven, 76

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  46. 46. ↑Harle, 79

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  47. 47. ↑Fisher, 51

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  48. 48. ↑Craven, 77; Harle, 38

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  49. 49. ↑BM, 48-50

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  50. 50. Jump up to: 1 2BM, 46

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  51. 51. ↑Rowland, 209

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  52. 52. ↑"India: The Ancient Past" p.113, Burjor Avari, Routledge, ISBN 0-415-35615-6

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  53. 53. ↑BM, 38-39

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  54. 54. ↑BM, 41

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  55. 55. ↑BM, 38, 41-45

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  56. 56. ↑BM, 10

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  57. 57. ↑BM, 40

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  58. 58. ↑Shimada, 48-58

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  59. 59. ↑Howes, Jennifer (2002). "Colin Mackenzie and the Stupa at Amaravati". _South Asian Studies_. **18**: 53–65\. doi: 10.1080/02666030.2002.9628607. S2CID 194108928.

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  60. 60. ↑link to the British Library album

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  61. 61. ↑These collections are being brought together in the **World Corpus of Amarāvatī Sculpture**, a digital project agreed to and jointly developed by the Archaeological Survey of India and the British Academy, London. website Archived 23 October 2016 at the Wayback Machine, another site, little developed

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  62. 62. ↑A fuller list, from BASAS

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  63. 63. ↑"Government Museum Chennai".

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  64. 64. ↑"National Museum, New Delhi".

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  65. 65. ↑Virtual Museum of Images and Sound - VMIS. "Collections-Virtual Museum of Images and Sounds".

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  66. 66. ↑"British Museum - Room 33a: Amaravati". _British Museum_.

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  67. 67. ↑"Singapore And India Sign Agreement: Ministry of Information, Communications and The Arts Press Release, 1 March 2003".

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  68. 68. ↑"Search Results for: Amaravati - Penn Museum Collections".

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  69. 69. ↑"Search". _Museum of Fine Arts, Boston_.

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  70. 70. ↑"Object - Online - Collections - Freer and Sackler Galleries". _Freer - Sackler_. Archived from the original on 22 December 2015. Retrieved 30 October 2015.

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  71. - Becker, Catherine, _Shifting Stones, Shaping the Past: Sculpture from the Buddhist Stūpas of Andhra Pradesh_, 2015, Oxford University Press, ISBN 9780199359400

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  72. - "BM": _Amaravati: The Art of an Early Buddhist Monument in Context_, Edited by Akira Shimada and Michael Willis, British Museum, 2016, PDF

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  73. - Craven, Roy C., _Indian Art: A Concise History_, 1987, Thames & Hudson (Praeger in USA), ISBN 0500201463

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  74. - Elsner, Jaś, _Amarāvatī : Art and Buddhism in Ancient India_, 2024, London: Reaktion Books, ISBN 9781789148695.

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  75. - Fisher, Robert E., _Buddhist art and architecture_, 1993, Thames & Hudson, ISBN 0500202656

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  76. - Harle, J.C., _The Art and Architecture of the Indian Subcontinent_, 2nd edn. 1994, Yale University Press Pelican History of Art, ISBN 0300062176

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  77. - Rowland, Benjamin, _The Art and Architecture of India: Buddhist, Hindu, Jain_, 1967 (3rd edn.), Pelican History of Art, Penguin, ISBN 0140561021

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  78. - Shimada, Akira, _Early Buddhist Architecture in Context:The Great Stūpa at Amarāvatī (Ca. 300 BCE–300 CE)_, Leiden: Brill, 2013, ISBN 9004233261, doi: 10.1163/9789004233263

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