US dollars effect of technology on education research paper Sarnath’s museum contains one of the most beautiful pieces of sculpture ever made: four roaring lions crouched back-to-back on an inverted bell. It is perfectly balanced and made from one piece of stone polished to a high lustre, “probably by a Persian master working for Ashoka”, says Allen, “though Indian archaeologists don’t like to entertain the idea that a foreigner might have made it”.