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How and why were the stupas built ? Explain.

Answer» <html><body><p></p><a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/solution-25781" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about SOLUTION">SOLUTION</a> :(i) Inscription found on the railings and <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/pillars-1154656" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about PILLARS">PILLARS</a> of stupas record donations made for building and decorating . <br/> (ii) Some donations were made by kings, whereas others were made by guilds. <br/> (iii) The ivory workers who financed part of one of the gateways at Sanchi. <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/hundreds-1033666" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about HUNDREDS">HUNDREDS</a> of donations were made by women and men who mention their names. <br/> (iv) Sometimes, the name of the place from where the people came as well as their occupations and names of their <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/relatives-1183710" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about RELATIVES">RELATIVES</a> were added. Bhikkhus and Bhikkhunis also contributed for the building of these monuments . <br/> Reasons for building were as follows : <br/> (i) There were other places too that were regarded as sacred. This was because relics of the Buddha such as his bodily remains used by him were buried there . These were mounds known as stupas. <br/> (ii) The tradition of erecting stupas may have been pre - Buddhist ,but they came to be associated with Buddhism. <br/> (iii) Since they contained relics regarded as sacred, the entire stupa came to be venerated as an emblem of both the Buddha and Buddhism. <br/> (iv) By the 2nd century BCE, a number of stupas including those at Bharhut, Sanchi and Sarnath had been <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/built-905292" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about BUILT">BUILT</a>.</body></html>


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