For other places with the same name, see Rampurwa.
Rampurva capitals
Original bull capital of Rampurva, one of the Pillars of Ashoka, now located in the Presidential Palace of Rashtrapati Bhavan, New Delhi. 3rd century BCE.
The Rampurva capitals are the capitals of a pair of Ashoka Pillars discovered in c. 1876 by A. C. L. Carlleyle.[1][2] The archaeological site is called Rampurva, and is located in the West Champaran district of the Indian state of Bihar, situated very close to the border with Nepal.[3] The lion capital is now in the Indian Museum in Kolkata, while the bull capital is located at the center of the porch of the Rashtrapati Bhavan, the Indian Presidential Palace.
^"Rampurva". Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved 7 October 2014.
^Allen, Charles (2010). The Buddha and Dr. Führer: An Archaeological Scandal. Penguin Books India. pp. 66–67. ISBN 978-0143415749.
^"Rampurva". Bihar Tourism. Retrieved 7 October 2014.
The Rampurvacapitals are the capitals of a pair of Ashoka Pillars discovered in c. 1876 by A. C. L. Carlleyle. The archaeological site is called Rampurva...
and less elegant style for the associated lion capitals, as for the Lauria Nandangarh lion and the Rampurva lion. Of the Allahabad pillar, only the abacus...
India Rampurwa, Mehsi or Rampur Jetha, East Champaran district, Bihar Rampurvacapitals, site of certain pillars of Ashoka in West Champaran district, Bihar...
often seems to display a strong influence of Greek art: in the case of the Rampurva bull or the Sankassa elephant, it is composed of honeysuckles alternated...
Sankissa elephant. Non polished. Rampurva zebu bull original (Rashtrapati Bhavan, New Delhi). Non polished. Rampurva lion. Polished. The "Lion Capital...
capital of Rampurva and the lion capital of Lauria Nandangarh. Much speculation has been made about the similarity between these capitals and Achaemenid...
friezes of the Rampurvacapitals and Sankissa, and the diamond throne of Bodh Gaya. Pataliputra capital. Frieze of Rampurvacapitals, alternating palmettes...
Allahabad pillar), Topra Kalan, Meerut, Lauriya-Araraj, Lauria Nandangarh, Rampurva (Champaran), and fragments of these in Aramaic (Kandahar, Edict No.7 and...
especially the horse on the Sarnath Lion Capital of Ashoka or the bull of the Rampurva capital are said to be typically Greek in realism, and belong to a type...
standing goddess. Northwest Pakistan. 3rd century BCE. British Museum Rampurva bull capital, detail of the abacus, with two "flame palmettes" framing...
who had worked on the excavations at Kushinagar in 1905, then Rajgir and Rampurva in 1906 and 1907. In an effort to keep material excavated at Sarnath close...
on the necking of the capital of Ionic order columns; however in column capitals of the Corinthian order it takes the shape of a 'fleuron' or flower resting...
Global Information
