Sankisa Basantpur, Farrukhabad: ... Close to the stairs was a 70 ft high Ashokan pillar, he wrote. Both Hwen Thsang and Fa Hien saw three ladders in the decaying shrine, ...

Uttar Pradesh’s Buddhist sites include Sarnath’s Dhamek Stupa, Kushinagar’s Mahaparinirvana Temple, Sravasti’s Jetavana Monastery, Kapilvastu’s Stupa, Kaushambi’s Ashoka Pillar, and ...