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Title: Shiva Dévālé (Shrine) number 1
Creator: de Silva, Preethi
Date Created and/or Issued: 2016
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: Close-up of the façade with doorway of the large, well preserved Shiva Dévālé (Shrine) Number 1 in stone. Only the legs remain of two guardian deities on pedestals in the niches flanking the doorway. The vertically positioned lingam (male genital organ, an object of worship) is in the center of the inner sanctum.
Type: image
Format: image/jp2
Identifier: acs01507.jpg
http://ccdl.claremont.edu/cdm/ref/collection/p15831coll15/id/1598
Subject: Shrines (structures)
Siva (Hindu deity)
Time Period: 12th century CE
Place: Shiva Dévālé (Shrine) Number 1
Polonnaruva
Sri Lanka
Relation: Ancient Buddhist Sites and Royal Residences in Sri Lanka - https://ccdl.claremont.edu/digital/collection/p15831coll15

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