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[[Claudius Aelianus|Aelian]], although not expressly quoting Megasthenes nor mentioning Pataliputra, described Indian palaces as superior in splendor to [[Persia]]'s [[Susa]] or [[Ecbatana]]: | [[Claudius Aelianus|Aelian]], although not expressly quoting Megasthenes nor mentioning Pataliputra, described Indian palaces as superior in splendor to [[Persia]]'s [[Susa]] or [[Ecbatana]]: | ||
{{quote|"In the royal residences in India where the greatest of the kings of that country live, there are so many objects for admiration that neither [[Memnon (mythology)|Memnon]]'s city of [[Susa]] with all its extravagance, nor the magnificence of [[Ecbatana]] is to be compared with them. (...) In the parks, tame peacocks and pheasants are kept." - [[Claudius Aelianus|Aelian]] in "''[[ | {{quote|"In the royal residences in India where the greatest of the kings of that country live, there are so many objects for admiration that neither [[Memnon (mythology)|Memnon]]'s city of [[Susa]] with all its extravagance, nor the magnificence of [[Ecbatana]] is to be compared with them. (...) In the parks, tame peacocks and pheasants are kept." - [[Claudius Aelianus|Aelian]] in "''[[Claudius Aelianus#De Natura Animalium|De Natura Animalium]]"''<ref>[https://archive.org/details/L449AelianCharacteristicsOfAnimalsIII1217 Aelian, Characteristics of animals, book XIII, Chapter 18], also quoted in The Cambridge History of India, Volume 1, p411</ref>}} | ||
Under Ashoka, most of wooden structure of Pataliputra palace may have been gradually replaced by stone.<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uXyftdtE1ygC&pg=PA96 |title=Asoka Mookerji Radhakumud |publisher=Motilal Banarsidass Publishing |year=1995 |page=96 |isbn=9788120805828 }}</ref> Ashoka was known to be a great builder, who may have even imported craftsmen from abroad to build royal monuments.<ref>{{cite book |title=Monuments, Power and Poverty in India: From Ashoka to the Raj |first=A. S. |last=Bhalla |publisher=I.B.Tauris |year=2015 |page=18 |isbn=9781784530877 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=emATBwAAQBAJ&pg=PA18 }}</ref> Pataliputra palace shows decorative influences of the Achaemenid palaces and Persepolis and may have used the help of foreign craftmen.<ref>{{cite journal |url=http://jsr.usb.ac.ir/article_1659_265.html |title=The Analysis of Indian Muria Empire affected from Achaemenid's architecture art |archive-date=2 April 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150402144452/http://jsr.usb.ac.ir/article_1659_265.html |journal=Journal of Subcontinent Researches |volume=6 |issue=19 |year=2014 |pages=149–174 }}</ref> Which may be the result of the formative influence of craftsmen employed from Persia following the disintegration of the [[Achaemenid Empire]] after the conquests of [[Alexander the Great]].<ref name="auto1">{{cite book |title=The Archaeology of South Asia: From the Indus to Asoka, c.6500 BCE–200 CE |first1=Robin |last1=Coningham |first2=Ruth |last2=Young |publisher=Cambridge University Press |year=2015 |page=414 |isbn=9780521846974 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hB5TCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA414 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://archive.org/details/reportonexcavat01waddgoog |title=Report on the excavations at Pātaliputra (Patna); the Palibothra of the Greeks |last=Waddell |first=L. A. (Laurence Austine) |year=1903 |publisher=Calcutta, Bengal secretariat press }}</ref> | Under Ashoka, most of wooden structure of Pataliputra palace may have been gradually replaced by stone.<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uXyftdtE1ygC&pg=PA96 |title=Asoka Mookerji Radhakumud |publisher=Motilal Banarsidass Publishing |year=1995 |page=96 |isbn=9788120805828 }}</ref> Ashoka was known to be a great builder, who may have even imported craftsmen from abroad to build royal monuments.<ref>{{cite book |title=Monuments, Power and Poverty in India: From Ashoka to the Raj |first=A. S. |last=Bhalla |publisher=I.B.Tauris |year=2015 |page=18 |isbn=9781784530877 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=emATBwAAQBAJ&pg=PA18 }}</ref> Pataliputra palace shows decorative influences of the Achaemenid palaces and Persepolis and may have used the help of foreign craftmen.<ref>{{cite journal |url=http://jsr.usb.ac.ir/article_1659_265.html |title=The Analysis of Indian Muria Empire affected from Achaemenid's architecture art |archive-date=2 April 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150402144452/http://jsr.usb.ac.ir/article_1659_265.html |journal=Journal of Subcontinent Researches |volume=6 |issue=19 |year=2014 |pages=149–174 }}</ref> Which may be the result of the formative influence of craftsmen employed from Persia following the disintegration of the [[Achaemenid Empire]] after the conquests of [[Alexander the Great]].<ref name="auto1">{{cite book |title=The Archaeology of South Asia: From the Indus to Asoka, c.6500 BCE–200 CE |first1=Robin |last1=Coningham |first2=Ruth |last2=Young |publisher=Cambridge University Press |year=2015 |page=414 |isbn=9780521846974 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hB5TCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA414 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://archive.org/details/reportonexcavat01waddgoog |title=Report on the excavations at Pātaliputra (Patna); the Palibothra of the Greeks |last=Waddell |first=L. A. (Laurence Austine) |year=1903 |publisher=Calcutta, Bengal secretariat press }}</ref> | ||