Kanganahalli, situated about 3 km from Sannati, is an important Buddhist site where an ancient Mahastupa was built. It is on the left bank of the Bhima river in Chitapur taluk, Kalaburagi district in Karnataka, India. Nalwar is the nearest Railway station about 19 km from Sannati. The Buddhist site about 2.5 km from Chandrala Parameshwari temple of Sannati.
MauryasAshoka and Buddhism
The remains of the excavations site at Kanaganahalli can be dated to between the 1st century BC to the 3rd century AD.
In circa the 1st century BC the stupa at Kanganahalli was constructed, as per the inscriptions referred to as Hama Chaitya and it was patronized by the Hinayana and Mahayana divisions of Buddhism during the 3rd and 4th centuries AD. During the Satavahana period, the Amaravati School of art made a deep impact on the sculptural and architectural forms of Kanaganahalli region. This was indeed a period of great artistic efflorescence that gave the Maha chaitya here the most impressive form unsurpassed in the history of stupa architecture in the south India.
The sculptured panels of the medhi are distinctly of native creation. The skill of making two dimensional sculptures and the carving of typical animal motifs are also of indigenous nature. Exhibit a transition phase between the early phase of Amaravati sculptural art and the elaborately sculptured panels of Nagarjunakonda with the sculptural panels found at Kanaganahalli stupa.
The volumes of their improvement over their Amaravati counterparts. The mastery of the artist of Kanganhalli in carving the geometric patterns, floral motifs, dress and ornamentation of the contemporary times and the concept of composition of the subject matter in the large sculptured panels.
The Kanaganahalli Maha Stupa is the veritable gallery of eminent rulers like King Ashoka and the Shatavahana rulers (Simuka, Pulumavi) are immortalized by depicting their portraits at Kanaganahalli.
Unlike the torana of Sanchi, Madhya Pradesh, portrait of emperor Ashoka is said to have depicted there in inscription found at Kanaganahalli.
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Sannati or Sannathi is a small village, located on the banks of the Bhima River in Chitapur taluk of Kalaburagi district of Northern Karnataka. It is famous for the Chandrala Parameshwari Temple and the excavations by the Archaeological Survey of India done in 1986. In 1986, when the roof of the Kali temple in Chandralamba temple complex collapsed, it destroyed the idol. However it revealed four Ashokan edicts on the floor and foundation stone of the temple.
vignette|Chaitya à Tokha, dans le district de Katmandou (Népal). Chaitya (sanskrit चिता, IAST : caitya, pali : cetiya, « tumulus », « sanctuaire », masculin en français) est un terme polysémique du bouddhisme qui renvoie généralement à un stūpa et à son sanctuaire. Il peut aussi désigner une stèle vishnouite. Le terme chaitya peut désigner, un stūpa — c'est-à-dire un reliquaire contenant des reliques du Bouddha Shakyamuni, d'un bodhisattva ou d'un personnage éminent.
vignette|Fragment du pilier écrit avec l'alphabet brahmi, 238 , British Museum. vignette|Répartition des édits dans le sous-continent indien. Les édits d'Ashoka sont un ensemble de gravées sur les piliers d'Ashoka ainsi que sur des rochers et dans des grottes. Les textes ont été dictés par l'empereur Ashoka et dispersés dans tout le sous-continent indien pendant son règne sur l'Empire Maurya de 269 à 232 Ces inscriptions sont les plus anciens documents historiques d'Inde que l'on ait pu déchiffrer et les premiers à mentionner le bouddhisme.