One of the few surviving "circles" of Bangalore, which looks much the same way as it must have, when it was laid out, is the Ashoka Pillar in Jayanagar:
It’s one of the circles to have two names;
"Mariyappa Rasthe":
and
"Ashoka Sthambha Vrittha":
Shaded by trees all around, and bounded on one side by the wall of Lalbagh, it is a gracious landmark of Bangalore…still there, but who knows for how long! ⊕
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