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  15. ===[COMMITTED]=== Mauryan War Elephant (and hero elephant)

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    I've never really seen a howdah design in the reliefs. All I have seen is some sort of cover, roof for the person in the back. I dont know if this is a simplification of a howdah design. No good references(historically accurate painting, drawing, etc) of a howdah design from then. :/

    If you guys insisted on a howdah design this is the closest good reference I have found.

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    Before the Islamic invasion of India.

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  17. ===[TASK]=== Mauryan Swords

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    I think you should make it based on 12.

    This image shows some of the weapons on the Sanchi Stupa.

    Fig: . आयुधानि On the sculptures of Sanchi (सांची) (. 3rd century BC) and Udayagiri (उदयगिरि) (4th century BC.) illustrated weapons

    [Credit: <Egerton, Wilbraham Egerton, Earl 1832-1909>: A description of Indian and Oriental armor: illustrated from the collection formerly in the India Office, now exhibited at South Kensington, and the author's private collection, with a map, twenty-three full-page plates (two colored) , and Numerous woodcuts, with an introductory sketch of the military history of India / by the Right Hon Lord Egerton of Tatton. - New ed - London: Allen, 1896. - Figure 2]

    http://www.payer.de/.../amara2142f.htm

  23. ===[COMMITTED]=== Mauryan Merchant Ship

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    1. The Square Sail

    The square sail was employed almost universally in the ancient world. It was only during the early Byzantine period in the eastern Mediterranean that any evidence emerges that triangular sails began to appear on the Mediterranean Sea. The square sail, though stable on heavy seas, is not very versatile to make much use of any headwinds. Square sails were still used until very recently on the sewn sambugs of Aden as well as lateen sails.

    http://nabataea.net/sailing.html

    In India square sails are depicted on coins of the Pallava dynasty (coeval with the Sassanids) and in the Ajanta ship of the seventh century AD.) (Elliot, W., Coins of Southern India, London 1885) An indication that lateens are not native to India is found in their absence today in inland water regions remote from foreign influences.

  24. ===[COMMITTED]=== Mauryan Merchant Ship

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    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lateen

    Further inquiries into the appearance of the lateen rig in the Indian Ocean and its gulfs show a complete reversal of earlier scholarly opinion on the direction of diffusion, now pointing to an introduction byPortuguese sailors in the wake of Vasco da Gama's arrival in India in 1500.[24] Searches for lateen sails in India were inconclusive.[25] Since lateen sails were absent from Indian inland waters, that is, in regions remote from foreign influences, as late as the mid-20th century, the hypothesis of an Indian origin appears a priori implausible.[26] The earliest evidence for the lateen in Islamic art occurs in a 13th-century Egyptian artifact which, however, is assumed to show a Mediterranean vessel.[27] Excavated depictions of Muslim vessels along the Eastern African coast uniformly show square sails before 1500.[28]

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