13 Facts About Pataliputra capital

Pataliputra capital is a monumental rectangular capital with volutes and Classical Greek designs, that was discovered in the palace ruins of the ancient Mauryan Empire capital city of Pataliputra.

Monumental capital was discovered in 1895 at the royal palace in Pataliputra, India, in the area of Bulandi Bagh in Patna, by archaeologist L A Waddell in 1895.

Pataliputra capital is generally dated to the early Maurya Empire period, 3rd century BCE.

Front and the back of the Pataliputra capital are both highly decorated, although the back has a few differences and is slightly coarser in design.

Some authors have remarked that the architecture of the city of Pataliputra capital seems to have had many similarities with Persian cities of the period.

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Him, the Pataliputra capital is an anta capital, with Greek shape and Greek decorations.

Pataliputra capital gives several examples of Greek anta capitals of similar designs from the Late Archaic period.

Central motif of the Pataliputra capital is the flame palmette, the first appearance of which goes back to the floral akroteria of the Parthenon, and slightly later at the Temple of Athena Nike, and which spread to Asia Minor in the 3rd century BCE, and can be seen at the doorstep of India in Ai-Khanoum from around 280 BCE, in antefix and mosaic designs.

Since both sides of the Pataliputra capital are decorative, it is normally not structurally an anta capital, but rather a pile or pillar capital: the capital of an independent supporting column of square, rectangular or possibly round section.

The Pataliputra capital has two holes on the top, which would imply a mode of fixation with a structural element overhead.

Site where the Pataliputra capital was excavated is marked by Waddell as the top-right corner of the area known today as Bulandi Bagh, northwest of the main excavation site.

Designs used in the Pataliputra capital are echoed by other known examples of Maurya architecture, especially the Pillars of Ashoka.

Sarnath Pataliputra capital is a pillar Pataliputra capital discovered in the archaeological excavations at the ancient Buddhist site of Sarnath.