Vedika

Japanese: 欄楯 - らんじゅん（英語表記）vedika

In India, a fence or palisade was built to separate a stupa or the sacred area around it from the secular world. It is thought that it was originally a wooden fence, but was later made of stone. A balustrade is usually surrounded by circular or square balustrade posts with square or octagonal chamfers, a capstone is placed at the top, and each balustrade post is connected in three tiers by a capstone below. Usually, a pylon is provided on all four sides, but in some cases, as in the Great Stupa of Sanchi, reliefs are applied only to the pylons, and in other cases, as in the balustrade at Bharhut, many reliefs are applied to the sides of the balustrade posts and capstones as well as the pylons.

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Japanese:

インドでストゥーパやその周囲の神聖な場所を，俗界の地と区別するために設けられた玉垣，柵。本来は木柵であったものが，石造に移行したと考えられる。欄楯は通常，周囲を円形または方形に，四角ないし八角に面取りした欄柱で囲み，最上部に笠石をさし渡し，その下に貫石で3段に各欄柱を連結している。普通四方に塔門が設けられているが，サーンチー大塔のように塔門にのみ浮彫を施す場合と，バールフットの欄楯のように，塔門ばかりでなく欄柱や貫石の側面まで多くの浮彫で飾る場合とがある。

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