Four lions sit back to back on this capital, which once crowned a column raised by the Mauryan emperor Ashoka at Sarnath, where the Buddha preached his first sermon. Carved from a single block of sandstone and polished to a glassy sheen, it was excavated in 1904–05. It is the model for India's state emblem, and its wheel sits at the centre of the national flag.
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Around the drum below the lions, an elephant, a bull, a galloping horse and a lion walk between spoked wheels, all moving from right to left.
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