The Mathura lion capital is an Indo-Scythian sandstone capital (a part of a pillar) from Mathura in Northern India, dated to the first decade of the 1st...
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The Lion Capital of Ashoka is the capital, or head, of a column erected by the Mauryan emperor Ashoka in Sarnath, India, c. 250 BCE. Its crowning features...
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Lion Capital may refer to: The Lion Capital of Ashoka, a sculpture used as the national emblem of India Mathura lion capital, an Indo-Scythian sandstone...
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Northern Satraps (section Mathura lion capital)
ruler of Mathura, satrap Rajuvula". She is mentioned as the "daughter of Kharahostes" (See: Mathura Lion Capital inscriptions). The lion capital also mentions...
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Satraps" who ruled in the area of Mathura in the northern Indian Subcontinent in the years around 10 CE. The Mathura lion capital was consecrated under the reign...
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Indo-Scythians (section Mathura region)
conquered the Mathura region c. 60 BCE. Some of their satraps were Hagamasha and Hagana, who were followed by Rajuvula. The Mathura lion capital, an Indo-Scythian...
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Art of Mathura The Art of Mathura refers to a particular school of Indian art, almost entirely surviving in the form of sculpture, starting in the 2nd...
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archaeological relics, including the Mathura lion capital, the Bairat and Sopara Ashokan inscription, the Nanaghat reliefs, the Mathura Vishnu image, drum miniature...
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centuries later in examples such as the Mathura lion capital (1st century CE). A later capital found in Mathura dating to the 2nd or 3rd century (Kushan...
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Terracotta Gallery Statue of Victoria, Empress of India Mathura lion capital "Government Museum, Mathura". Parampara Project, Ministry of Culture, govt. of...
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buildings in the architecture of the Maurya Empire. The much smaller Mathura lion capital of the 1st century CE shows clear influence. They can be seen in...
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called 𐨨𐨅𐨬𐨐𐨁 𐨨𐨁𐨩𐨁𐨐 Me-va-ki Mi-yi-ka, Mevaki Miyika in the Mathura lion capital inscription,) was the first Indo-Scythian king, ruling from 98/85...
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located Mathura (Lok Sabha constituency) Mathura lion capital, Indo-Scythian sandstone capital from Mathura, dated to the 1st century CE Mathura (moth)...
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Rajuvula, the Great Satrap of the region from Taxila to Mathura. He is mentioned in the Mathura lion capital. Sodasa's name is recorded in Kharosthi as Śuḍasa...
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one and same historical personage. The Inscriptions A and E on the Mathura Lion Capital style Kharaosta as Yuvaraya Kharaosta Kamuio. Based on the estimates...
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Saptarishi Tila statue (category Mathura art)
Indraji, at the same time and place as another important artifact, the Mathura lion capital, dated to the beginning of the 1st century CE. The statue wears a...
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possibly from an inscription on the Mathura lion capital, although another satrap Kharaostes has been discovered in Mathura. He was probably a successor of...
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Indo-Greek Kingdom (section Rule in Mathura)
incorporated depictions of Greek deities, particularly Zeus. The Mathura lion capital inscription attests that they adopted the Buddhist faith, as do the...
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later. The Indo-Scythians are otherwise connected with Buddhism (see Mathura lion capital), and it is indeed possible they would have commended the work. Indo-Scythian...
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is attested in a contemporary Kharosthi inscription found on the Mathura lion capital belonging to the Saka kingdom of the Indo-Scythians (200 BC – 400...
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Kakiemon elephants Kang Hou gui Kanishka casket Klang Bell Kulu Vase Mathura lion capital Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art Seated Buddha from Gandhara...
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later. The Indo-Scythians are otherwise connected with Buddhism (see Mathura lion capital and the multiple Buddhist dedications of the Apracas), and it is...
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Kharahostes or Kharaosta who had been known from numismatics and Mathura Lion Capital inscriptions. The Inscription no. II also establishes that king Kharaosta...
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Pakistan. Exhibited at the British Museum in London. Mathura lion capital with addorsed lions and Prakrit inscriptions in Kharoshthi script Fragments...
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Pakistan), (1st century BC – 1st century AD) Indo-Scythian sandstone Mathura Lion Capital and Bracket figure from one of the gateways to the Great Stupa at...
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of Aiyasi Kamuia. She finds mention in inscription no A-5 of the Mathura Lion Capital. F. W. Thomas has read this name as Nadadi (Nadasi)- Akasa, Dr Bühler...
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mentioning Patika Kusulaka, who also appears as a "Great Satrap" in the Mathura lion capital inscription. 1 [samva]tsaraye athasatatimae 20 20 20 10 4 4 maharayasa...
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incorporated depictions of Greek deities, particularly Zeus. The Mathura lion capital inscription attests that they adopted the Buddhist faith, as do the...
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meaning "striving, ambitious, energetic". He is mentioned in the Mathura lion capital. He is also mentioned in the Taxila copper plate inscription (Konow...
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Kakiemon elephants Kang Hou gui Kanishka casket Klang Bell Kulu Vase Mathura lion capital Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art Seated Buddha from Gandhara...
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