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| Acknowledgements | |
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| Abbreviations | |
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| Note on Transliteration and Citation of Primary Sources | |
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| List of Figures, Tables, Maps and Plates | |
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| Plates | |
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| Introduction: Discovery of the Amaravati Stupa | |
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| Discovery of the Stupa and Early Excavations | |
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| Historiography | |
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| Archaeological, Epigraphic and Art-Historical Analysis | |
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| Historical Analysis | |
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| Methodological Problems | |
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| Possible Approaches | |
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| Comprehensive Examination of the Objects in Site Context | |
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| Intensive Survey of Archaeological and Epigraphic Data for Recovering Regional History | |
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| Active Reading of the Archaeological and Epigraphic Data | |
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| The Scheme of This Study | |
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| Dynastic History | |
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| The Pre-Historic and Geographical Setting | |
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| The Lower Krishna Valley | |
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| Pre-Historic Settlements | |
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| Amaravati | |
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| The Early Historic Period (ca. 300 BCE-300 CE) | |
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| The Mauryan Period | |
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| The Post-Mauryan Period | |
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| The Sadas | |
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| The Satavahanas | |
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| The Iksvakus | |
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| Chronological Framework | |
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| The Starting Date of the Later Satavahanas | |
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| The Termination Date of the Later Satavahanas | |
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| The Date of the Sadas | |
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| The Early Satavahanas | |
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| Summary | |
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| Chronological And Architectural Reconstruction | |
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| Mauryan (?) Foundation of the Stupa and Early Period of Construction (ca. 200-100 BCE) | |
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| Foundation of the Stupa | |
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| Date for the Earliest Architectural Remains | |
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| Dimensions of the Early Stupa | |
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| Link to Pre-Buddhist Building Traditions | |
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| Late Period of Construction (ca. 50 BCE-250 CE) | |
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| Enlargement of the Stupa | |
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| Construction of a New Limestone Railing | |
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| Refurbishment of the Stupa | |
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| Summary | |
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| Social Development | |
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| Transition to Early Historic Society: The Mauryan Period | |
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| Formation of Proto States: The Post-Mauryan Period | |
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| Localization of State Infrastructures | |
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| Socio-Economic Development | |
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| Expansion and Intensification: The Sada-Satavahana Period | |
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| From Regional State to Inter-regional State | |
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| Expansion of Socio-Economic Spaces | |
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| The Transformation of Society: Epigraphic Evidence | |
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| The Prevalence of Writing | |
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| Distintegration of Traditional Society | |
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| Summary | |
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| Buddhist Patronage | |
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| The Development of Buddhist Patronage | |
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| The Rise of the Urban Ethic in Early Historic India | |
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| Buddhist Patronage | |
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| Organization of Buddhist Construction Work | |
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| The Laymen: the Intermediaries | |
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| The Samgha: the Supervisor | |
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| The Kings: A Catalyst | |
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| Stupa: The Architecture of Collective Patronage | |
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| Summary | |
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| City and Monastery | |
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| The Spatial Relationship between Buddhist Monasteries and Cities | |
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| Components of the 'Outside' Spaces | |
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| Funerary Spaces | |
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| Trade/Exchange | |
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| Nature of the 'Outside' Spaces | |
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| Insecurity | |
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| Impurity | |
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| Transcendence | |
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| Social Roles of Buddhist Monasteries in Peripheral Spaces | |
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| Summary | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Amaravati: The Urban Monastery | |
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| Transformation of Andhran Monastic Buddhism (ca. 250 CE) | |
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| Appendix | |
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| Description of the West Gate of the Amaravati Stupa: Extract from Walter Elliot's Note Found with Pencil Sketches, 1845 | |
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| Early Historic Sites in Andhra Pradesh | |
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| Amaravati inscriptions | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Index | |