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Great Stupa, Sanchi

Sanchi, Raisen District, Madhya Pradesh Buddhist stupa and monastic complex

Served from the stored corpus. Last scan Sep 29, 2026. Next scan Oct 29, 2026.

Photograph

Earliest republishable photograph in this record.

Photograph from 1885 by Lala Deen Dayal showing the Great Stupa at Sanchi from the north.

Northern view, 1885

Lala Deen Dayal photographed the Great Stupa from the north in 1885. This is the earliest republishable photograph of Sanchi stored here. James Waterhouse’s 1861–62 gateway survey is earlier and is not ingested.

1885 Lala Deen Dayal, 1885. Public domain / CC0, via Wikimedia Commons. Source and license

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Great Stupa Unknown or insufficient evidence · Medium confidence No measured plan is stored. The feature is named from the secondary account and the historic photographs, not from a drawing.