Short description:

This book attempts to understand early Buddhist architectural vocabulary and the artisans who first made use of it.

Long description:

The early Buddhist architectural vocabulary, being the first of its kind, maintained its monopoly for about half a millennium, beginning from the third century BCE. To begin with, it was oral, not written. The Jain, Hindu, and other Indian sectarian builders later developed their vocabulary on this foundation, though not identically.

This book attempts to understand this vocabulary and the artisans who first made use of it.

Print edition not for sale in South Asia (India, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bangladesh, Pakistan and Bhutan)

Table of Contents:

Prof D S Achuta Rao

Prof D S Achuta Rao Endowment

Acknowledgements

Preface

Foreword

1.       The Earliest Artisans in History

2.       The Earliest Scribe-Sculptors in the Lower Deccan (Continued rom Ch. I)

3.       Early Kharoshti Artisans in North-Western India

4.        The Early Buddhist Artisans

5.       Applied Vocabulary of the Early Indian Architecture

6.       A Buddha Vihara at Aihole

Index