Reber, Franz, Clarke, Joseph Thacher, d. 1920, tr · New York : Harper & Brothers · leaf 169
no means always the same. Asthe cones of the Etruscan tumuli are of various angles of elevation,so also do the topes at times rise in parabolic outline to the altitudeof towers. This is the case with the tope of Sarnath, near Benares,on the Ganges, probably built in the sixth century after Christ,… … Fig. 73.—Restored Half View and Section of the Tope of Manikyala. tie more than 8 m., attains to twice that height. The tope of Sar-nath appears, however, to be of somewhat different character fromthe majority of these structures, it containing no relics and havingbeen erected merely to commemorate…
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