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Title: Basawakkulama tank (reservoir)
Creator: Bopearachchi, Osmund
Date Created and/or Issued: 2002
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: Located near and to the west of the Ruvanvälisǟya, seen here in the distance. Earlier known as Abhaya tank and enlarged and improved for about 1500 years for water storage. Pandukāhabya was the first king of Anuradhapura and the sixth recorded monarch of the island.
Type: image
Format: image/jp2
Identifier: acs00391.JPG
http://ccdl.claremont.edu/cdm/ref/collection/p15831coll15/id/480
Subject: Reservoirs
Irrigation
Time Period: 5th and 4th century BCE
Place: Mahāvihāra (The "great" monastery): Ruvanvälisǟya area
Anurādhapura
Sri Lanka
Relation: Ancient Buddhist Sites and Royal Residences in Sri Lanka - https://ccdl.claremont.edu/digital/collection/p15831coll15

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