Chunar stone or Red-spotted sandstone is a kind of reddish or buff-colored, finely grained, hard sandstone quarried in the Chunar in the Mirzapur District of Uttar Pradesh, and widely used in the architecture of India.Mahajan V.D. (1960, reprint 2007). Ancient India, New Delhi: S.Chand, New Delhi, , p.349 Background Notable buildings and monuments carved from chunar stone include:
Pillars of Ashoka.Thapar, Romila (2001). and the Decline of the Mauryan, New Delhi: Oxford University Press, , pp.267-70 Buddha Preaching his First Sermon (Sarnath) St. Paul's Cathedral, Kolkata.
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