However, since most potbelly monuments were not found in their original locations it is impossible to know whether they originally served as burial markers.
That they originally served the Shunga line is attested by the appellation Shungabhrityas (i.e., servants of the Shungas) given to them in the Puranas.
Among the functions they originally served were as predellas (the facings to altar-step risers); devotional and ceremonial icons; portable, folding diptych and triptych altarpieces; shop and tavern signboards; mummy cases; and panel decorations of carriages, musical instruments, and cassoni.
He was hired as a pilot for Widerøe on 6 February 1986, where he had originally served on the de Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter.
In 1937 he founded the Indonesian news agency Antara, which originally served as an organ of the nationalist press.
While US 6 was also one of the original 1926 U.S. Highways, the road originally served the portion of the United States east of the Rocky Mountains.
RICHARD PERRY/THE NEW YORK TIMES Built on a promontory in the 1890s after a fire destroyed the original 1849 structure, the church, which is now crumbling, originally served a German and Italian neighborhood.
Jerusalem proper being unavailable, he opened his main office in Abu Dis, in a former Israeli military headquarters that originally served as the mansion of a key clan -- the Erekat family of Saeb Erekat, a senior negotiator.
Some of his work does literally involve industrial techniques, like his brilliant enamels and his recent essays in sculpture, but he is concerned with the special qualities brought into his adoptive language by the reproduction processes it originally served.
