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Study the picture and answer the questions. Identify the structure given in the picture. Where is it located? What is the decorative top of this structure known as? Describe its important features. What is its significance in modern India? The Mauryan Empire, Effective History and Civics Solutions ICSE Class 6.

(a) Identify the structure given in the picture. Where is it located?

(b) What is the decorative top of this structure known as? Describe its important features.

(c) What is its significance in modern India?

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(a) The structure given in the picture is Sarnath pillar. It is located in Sarnath.

(b) The decorative top of this structure is known as the Lion Capital. Its important features are the following:

  1. It has four lions sitting back to back so that they face four different directions.
  2. There is a Dharmachakara (Wheel of Law) in the centre of the base plate, with a figure of a bull on the right side and that of a horse on the left.

(c) Its significance in modern India is that the Lion Capital has been adopted as the National Emblem of India. It is printed on our currency and government documents. The Dharmachakara (Wheel of Law) appears on our National Flag.

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