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This book consists of twenty three research papers; afford a welcome enlargement of the scope of the religious, social and architectural discourse, which dealt with the some of the important issues like order of hierarchy in the realm of religions, religious patronage and reciprocity, temple-society interface, facets of temple culture and Buddhism and its cultural phase and other issues of the early medieval India.
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Buddhism is one of the important religions of ancient India. It originated in about the 6 century B.C. and spread to eastern and central parts of India by c. 5-4 century B.C. The epigraphic and literary sources suggest that it reached the North-West by the 3 century B.C. or at least during the reign of the Mauryan King Asoka (c. 273-236 B.C.). Since then it was the predominant religion till about the 5 century A.D. Thereafter, it was still a major living force ...