Name: The Magnificence of Mauryan Art and Architecture
Uploaded: 2019-07-19
Duration: 4 min 57 s
Description: Mauryan art marked a transition from wood-work to stone. Ashoka was one Mauryan ruler whose conversion to Buddhism inspired great architectural achievements.

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Give information about Dholavira.

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$1 .$ It is considered as grandest of the cities of the time, located in the Kutch Desert Wildlife Sanctuary in Great Rann of Kutch. It has an area more than $100$ acre.

$2 .$ Dholavira was first noticed by J.P. Joshi but extensive excavation was conducted by R.S. Bisht in $1990 - 91$ .

$3$ . Dholavira was an important centre of trade between settlements in South Gujarat, Sindh , Punjab, and Western Asia. Unlike other cities of Indus valley civilisation.

$4 .$ Dholavira is one of the prominent archaeological sites of Harappa, which gives us important information about great bath and reservoir which was of $7$ metres depth and $79$ metres long.

$5 .$ The town was built in a rectangular shape. It was divided into three parts- fort, central town and lower town.

$6 .$ People of Dholavira were familiar with the advanced water management system. From the earliest evidence, people used store water in this reservoir by building dams.

Give information about Dholavira.

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