The keep going of the augmentations to this astounding stupa are the expand and wonderfully cut four passages or 'toranas', recognized as the finest centerpieces at Sanchi and likewise the finest samples of Buddhist symbolization in India. A railing encloses the stupa, its fundamental model comprises of two upright columns (8.5 meters high) that are square fit as a fiddle joined by three level pillars or architraves with volute closes. Inherent 35 BC, throughout the rule of the Satavahanans, these entryways are flawlessly secured and convey unequivocal carvings which portray scenes principally from the prior lives of the Buddha (jataka), on top of enhancing components like delineation of religious subjects, elephants or pot-bellied dwarves, a set of four lions, promising symbols,
vriksha devatas (symbolising diverse sorts of trees) and so on.
Here, the Buddha is depicted in images: the lotus speaking to his life commencement, the tree his edification, the wheel determined from the title of his first sermon, the footmarks and throne speaking to his vicinity. These have been cut with such motivated power and symbolism that, brought together with the encompassing figures, they are recognized to balance the monstrous robustness of the stupa they surround.
