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TORAN

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Originally appearing in Volume V27, Page 50 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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TORAN  , the name in Hindustani (Skr. torana, from tor, pass) of a sacred or honorific gateway in Buddhist

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architecture . Its typical
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form is a projecting
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cross-piece resting on two uprights or posts . It is made of
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wood or
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stone, and the cross-piece is generally of three bars placed one on the
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top of the other; both cross-piece and posts are usually sculptured .

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