Kankali Tila

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Kankali Tila is an important archaeological mound in Mathura, India, renowned for yielding major Jain and early Mathura school of art sculptures and inscriptions.

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instanceOf archaeological mound
archaeological site
artStyle Mathura school of art
associatedWithCommunity Digambara Jains
Śvetāmbara Jains
linked to: Svetambara
associatedWithReligion Jainism
contributedToStudyOf development of Mathura school of sculpture
early Jain iconography
social and religious history of ancient Mathura
country India
excavatedBy Alexander Cunningham
F. O. Oertel
excavationStartYear 1871
1872
1888
1889
hasArchaeologicalEvidenceFromPeriod Gupta period
linked to: Gupta Empire

Kushan period
linked to: Kushan Empire

early centuries CE
hasCulturalSignificanceFor Jain heritage in North India
hasEvidenceOf Jain monastic establishments
Jain stupas
Jain temples
inscriptionsLanguage Prakrit
inscriptionsScript Brahmi script
knownFor Jain inscriptions
Jain sculptures
early Mathura school of art sculptures
early stone and terracotta images
locatedIn Mathura
Uttar Pradesh
locatedOn right bank of the Yamuna River
managedBy Archaeological Survey of India
nearbyCity Mathura
partOf Mathura archaeological region
linked to: Mathura
region Braj region
yieldsTypeOfArtifact Jain ayagapatas
Jain votive tablets
architectural fragments
donative inscriptions
image pedestals
inscribed pillars

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