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Title
Vāhalkada: Stele
Creator
Bopearachchi, Osmund
Date Created and/or Issued
2014
Publication Information
Claremont Colleges Library
Contributing Institution
Claremont Colleges Library
Collection
Ancient Cultural Sites and Royal Residences
Rights Information
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License - http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
Description
Stele at the edge of a vāhalkada with the figure possibly of the sun-god holding a lotus flower, in bas-relief.
Type
image
Format
image/jp2
Identifier
acs00462.JPG
http://ccdl.claremont.edu/cdm/ref/collection/p15831coll15/id/560
Subject
Stele (Archaeology)
Sculpture
Time Period
In the 1st century BCE and expanded and restored many times through the 12th century CE. Vāhalkada built in the reign of King Kanittha Tissa (226-244 CE)
Place
Abhayagiri Monastery: Abhayagiri Stūpa
Anurādhapura
Sri Lanka
Relation
Ancient Buddhist Sites and Royal Residences in Sri Lanka - https://ccdl.claremont.edu/digital/collection/p15831coll15

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