The Bimaran casket or Bimaran reliquary is a small gold reliquary for Buddhist relics that was removed from inside the stupa no.2 at Bimaran, near Jalalabad...

Bimaran is a locality, 11 km west of Jalalabad in Afghanistan. It is well known for the discovery of the Bimaran casket in one of the stupas (stupa Nb...

Hellenistic examples found in earlier layers. Azes is connected to the Bimaran casket, one of the earliest representations of the Buddha. The reliquary was...

The earliest known image of the Buddha with approximate dating is the Bimaran casket, which was found buried with coins of the Indo-Scythian king Azes II...

connected to the Bimaran casket, one of the earliest representations of the Buddha. The casket was part of the deposit of Stupa 2 in Bimaran, near Jalalabad...

ten portions was placed in a reliquary (such as the Kanishka casket or the Bimaran casket) and buried in a tumulus. These tumuli have been expanded or...

in evening chanting such as the Udissanādiṭṭhānagāthā (Iminā). The Bimaran Casket made of gold inset with garnet, dated to be around 60 CE, but some proposals...

and Indra standing in similar compartments, detail of the side of Bimaran gold casket" in Agrawala, Prithvi Kumar (1977). Early Indian Bronzes. Prithvi...

Qocho Penjikent murals Sampul tapestry Sogdian Daēnās Oxus Treasure Bimaran Casket Buddhas of Bamiyan Kabul hoard Aramaic Inscription of Laghman Kandahar...

famous very early excavated reliquaries are the 1st-century Bimaran Casket and the Kanishka Casket of 127 AD, both believed to have contained part of the cremated...