Fa-Hsien states that he was honoured in Central India, and Hsüan Chuang that there were stupas dedicated to him at Muttra.
We are led to the same result by the descriptions of Indian buildings, of paved roads and lofty temples, which were first built by the Brahmans in opposition to the stupas of the Buddhists.
Acoka's stupas exhibit it in the fullest bloom, and this form of worship is prominent in the tradition of the conversion of Ceylon.
In the fourth century, it is true, the followers of Buddha had erected stupas for his relics (p.
According to the account of Hiuan-Thsang stupas of Acoka existed at his time in the Deccan among the Andhras and Cholas, the Kanchis and Konkanas; in Nagara he saw a stupa, and in Udyana a vihara of Acoka.
The Tsin annals say that it was enclosed by a triple wall and contained a thousand stupas and Buddhist temples as well as a magnificent palace for the king[500].
The dome is set upon a rectangular base disposed in three stories and this arrangement is said to characterize all the stupas of Turkestan as well as those of the Kabul valley and adjacent regions.
India has stupas and gopurams of pyramidal appearance but still Hindu temples of the normal type, both in the north and south, consist of a number of buildings erected on the same level.
Ananda, Upali, each had Stupas erected over their relics.
Another remarkable characteristic of this spot is that it was converted into a kind of Buddhist Necropolis, teeming with the remains of generations of the Buddha's adherents contained in relic-receptacles called Stupas (pp.
Moreover [S']aityas and Stupas were often mere pyramidal structures, enshrining images or marking important events (see p.
The engraving opposite to this page is a copy of one of these votive Stupas which I procured for the Indian Institute through Mr. Beglar.
Relics, however, were not always forthcoming, and so the votive Stupas were frequently mere cenotaphs or models in clay or stone of actual Stupas erected in other places.
Indeed, the present appearance of the square and the sacred area of ground adjoining--strewn with ruins of the Stupas erected by A[.
When he died Stupas were erected to his memory, and in some places he was even worshipped as Buddha.
The sacred character of the place is attested by the ruins of vast numbers of Buddhist Stupas and Viharas which once existed here.
We have already seen that memorial Stupas and temples, not intended to contain relics, were reared at various holy spots of ground, consecrated by the presence of Gautama on special occasions.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "stupas" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
