Publisher's Synopsis
Buddhist art and architecture were very well-known during artistic history. A stupa, for example, literally meaning heap, is a mound-like structure designed to encase Buddhist relics and other holy objects. Stupas exist all over the world and are the oldest Buddhist religious monuments.
This book focuses on classifying the architecture of the monument to be a Buddhist monastery/vihara attached to a stepwell. Introductory details are on how to read those amazing sculptures of asta maha bodhisattvas, the female deities, and the other deities of Mahayana pantheon, found in Rani Ki Vav stepwell.
