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On the Loss of Cultural Heritage in Quake-Ravaged Nepal

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Fig. 4.
Kāṣṭhamaṇḍapa together with a large step well were strategically placed at Maru-ṭol in central Kathmandu at the intersection of the two major trans-Himalayan roads which linked the Kathmandu Valley with India and China by way of Tibet. Photograph Mary Slusser with added color by Dipesh Risal.

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