Ratha in ancient Bharatam

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hinducivilization, kalyan97 <kalyan97

wrote:

 

IndiaArchaeology, "Paul Kekai Manansala"

<p.manansala@>

wrote:> In fact, even many of the Mauryan and Sungan chariot

depictions

seem> not to have been made by someone intimately familiar with

chariots.

Please see the chariot incised on a bronze vase (BCE) from Gondla,

Himachal

Pradesh.

 

1. at http://docs.google.com/File?id=ajhwbkz2nkfv_602d284w6

 

and 2. at

http://www.thebritishmuseum.ac.uk/compass/resources/image/large/ps345

720.jpg

 

 

with links to inscribed Wardak stupa deposit bronze reliquary and

other

notes on ratha at

 

http://docs.google.com/View?docid=ajhwbkz2nkfv_49fgccw3

 

 

The chariot-box shown on war panel of Standard of Ur is almost

identical in

design to that of a chariot-box of Chanhudaro.

http://www.hindunet.org/saraswati/chanhuwagon_small.jpg

See notes at http://www.hindunet.org/saraswati/ratha3.htm

 

See also rock-paintings of chariots

http://www.hindunet.org/saraswati/ratha4.htm

 

k

 

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