A bell-shaped lotus forms the lowest member of the capital, and the whole 2.1 metres (7 ft) tall, carved out of a single block of sandstone and highly polished, was secured to its monolithic column by a metal dowel.
The side of the abacus is adorned with wheels in relief, and interspersing them, four animals, a lion, an elephant, a bull, and a galloping horse follow each other from right to left. Its crowning features are four life-sized lions set back to back on a drum-shaped abacus. The Lion Capital of Ashoka is the capital, or head, of a column erected by the Mauryan emperor Ashoka in Sarnath, India, c.
The architectural bell below the abacus, is a stylized upside-down lotusĨ6 centimetres (34 in) (diameter of abacus) Between the chakras appear four animals in profile-horse, bull, elephant, and lion. The Buddhist wheel of the moral law appears in relief below each lion. Four Asiatic lions stand back to back on a circular abacus.
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