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Bharhut
Sunga → early Satavahana (Shunga art) 150–75 BCE · Sunga (Dhanabhuti lineage)
Great Sunga stupa 150–75 BCE — 11 m vedika with toranas, Jataka-labelled reliefs and yakshi pillars (Cunningham).
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Bharhut Satna Stupa
Mauryan Ashoka → Sunga 3rd–1st c BCE · Sunga Buddhist Hinayana — early narrative sculpture
Bharhut Satna Stupa — Sunga–Satavahana Buddhist stupa (3rd c BCE Ashokan nucleus, 2nd c BCE Sunga rail decoration) at Bharhut 15 km Satna, discovered 1873 by Cunningham with 40 ft stupa, red…
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Bharhut Stupa
Shunga 187–78 BCE · Shunga (Maurya successors)
Great Shunga Buddhist stupa (c.150 BCE) whose 8 m-high gateway and 3.2 m limestone railing — longest early Indian stone railing (40 m diameter stupa) — was dismantled in 1873–76 by Cunningham and is…