Art and Culture for UPSC 2027-28 | Mauryan Art and Architecture | PART 2 | Arti Chhawari

Art and Culture for UPSC 2027-28 continues with Mauryan art and architecture taught live, plus a free fill-in-the-blanks worksheet in English and Hindi. This is Part 2 with Arti Chhawari. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ FREE WORKSHEETS AND PDFs: https://unacademy.com/content/upsc/ar... 💜 U-CAN (Bilingual), the complete Current Affairs course for UPSC CSE 2027, 2028 and 2029, in Hindi and English. U-CAN 2027: https://unacademy.com/goal/upsc-civil... U-CAN 2028 & 2029: https://unacademy.com/goal/upsc-civil... ✅ Subject-wise CA by top educators ✅ Prelims + Mains in one batch ✅ Live classes with doubt clearing ✅ Weekly tests + CA notes ✅ Monthly Articulate Magazine 🎁 Free with Iconic and above subscriptions ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ UPSC ke Prelims aur Mains dono ke liye crisp notes chahiye hote hain, English mein bhi aur Hindi mein bhi. Is series ki har class ke saath ek worksheet milegi jisme kuch blanks honge. Class se pehle worksheet download kijiye, blanks ko class ke dauraan live fill kijiye, aur class khatam hote hote wahi aapke handy notes ban jayenge. Yahi notes aap Prelims aur Mains ke questions solve karne ke liye use karenge, aur paper se pehle inhi ko revise karenge. CHAPTERS 00:00:00 Class Start and Worksheet Download 00:01:24 Who the Mauryas Were 00:01:57 Court Art and Popular Art 00:03:31 Ashokan Pillars: Why They Were Built 00:05:40 Kalinga War and the Dhamma Messages 00:06:46 Parts of a Pillar: Shaft, Inverted Lotus, Abacus, Capital 00:08:33 Tapering, Monolithic and Polished 00:10:48 Chunar and Mathura: Where the Stone Came From 00:11:25 Animal Capitals and Their Buddhist Meaning 00:12:03 The Lion Capital and the Lotus Symbol 00:13:52 Bull at Rampurva and Elephant at Sankisa 00:15:38 The Sarnath Lion Capital and the National Emblem 00:16:49 Abacus, Ashoka Chakra and the BHEL Trick 00:19:14 Marking Every Pillar Site on the Map 00:20:25 What a Stupa Is and Where the Idea Came From 00:22:48 Buddha's Relics, Drona and the Eight Pots 00:24:34 The Nine Original Stupas and Their Locations 00:26:28 Ashoka and the 84,000 Stupas 00:27:42 Mauryan Stupas vs the Evolved Sanchi You See Today 00:30:05 Rock-Cut Caves and the Shramana Tradition 00:32:59 Chaitya and Vihara: The Difference 00:34:08 Barabar Hills: Lomas Rishi and the Other Caves 00:37:36 Polished Walls, Cave Plans and Gavaksha 00:40:29 Nagarjuni Hills Caves 00:41:33 Mauryan Palaces at Kumrahar and Bulandibagh 00:44:58 Prelims PYQ Practice 00:49:38 Mains PYQs: Lion and Bull Figures, Philosophy in Art 00:57:05 What Comes Next: Post-Mauryan Architecture WHAT THIS CLASS COVERS Court Art and Popular Art, and why the difference matters Ashokan pillars: free-standing vs structural, and what Ashoka wrote on them Pillar anatomy: shaft, inverted lotus (which the British wrongly called a bell capital), abacus and animal capital The three pillar features UPSC repeats: tapering, monolithic and polished Why each animal is there: lion, bull, elephant, horse and the lotus, and their Buddhist meaning The Sarnath Lion Capital, its abacus, the 24-spoke Ashoka Chakra, and why it became the National Emblem Stupas: the Shatapatha Brahmana reference, Buddha's relics, Drona and the eight pots The nine original stupa sites, and the three we can no longer locate Why Mauryan stupas were plain mounds, and what was added later Rock-cut caves: Chaitya vs Vihara, Barabar and Nagarjuni Hills, and the term Gavaksha Why no Mauryan palace survives, and what Kumrahar and Bulandibagh actually gave us Prelims PYQs and Mains PYQs from 2022 and 2020, solved live SITES TO MARK ON THE WORKSHEET MAP Sarnath, Sankisa, Chunar (Uttar Pradesh) Sanchi (Madhya Pradesh) Vaishali, Rampurva, Lauriya Nandangarh, Lauriya Araraj, Jehanabad, Kumrahar, Bulandibagh (Bihar) Mathura (Uttar Pradesh) ABOUT YOUR EDUCATOR Unacademy profile: https://unacademy.com/@arti1702 Part 3 covers Post-Mauryan architecture. Agar aapka koi doubt hai, strategy se related ya is topic se related, comment section mein zaroor pucchiye. Main aane wali videos mein unhe address karungi. #MauryanArchitecture #ArtAndCulture #AshokaPillar #BuddhistStupa #AncientHistory #UPSC2027 #UPSCPrelims #UPSCMains #RockCutArchitecture #LionCapital #UPSCHistory #IndianHistory #ArtiChhawari #UPSCNotes #UPSCCSE #MauryaKaal #Buddhism #UPSC mauryan art and architecture upsc,mauryan architecture upsc,mauryan pillar architecture upsc,mauryan cave architecture upsc,ashokan pillars upsc,lion capital sarnath upsc,barabar caves upsc,buddhist stupa architecture upsc,mauryan art and architecture upsc notes,mauryan art and architecture in hindi,mauryan art and architecture upsc pyq,art and culture for upsc,art and culture for upsc mains,maurya kaal art and culture,arti chhawari,ancient history for upsc