1994/06/01 by Himanshu Prabha Ray · 3 citations
Social Sciences · #Asian Geopolitics and Ethnography #Anthropological Studies and Insights #Asian Studies and History
paper · doi:10.1080/00438243.1994.9980259
openalex publication_date 1994/06/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/29
The Buddhist site of Kanheri on the west coast of India continued to receive patronage from the first to the tenth centuries AD. This was in the form of money and land donations in the early centuries of the Christian era, whereas, in the early medieval period, the pilgrims built votive stupas of brick. Enshrined within these stupas were relic caskets and copper plates or stone tablets bearing the Buddhist creed. Many of these stone tablets have been found at early centres in Southeast Asia, together with sealings of unbaked clay and small votive stupas, and no doubt provide archaeological evidence of the pilgrim traffic by sea between South and Southeast Asia.