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Title: Isurumuniya, rock temple: north of shrine: sculpture of seated man and a horse
Creator: Bopearachchi, Osmund
Date Created and/or Issued: 2005
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 sculpture of man and horse. The famous figures of a man seated in "maharājalilāsana" posture and a horse, carved out of the living rock. According to Senerat Paranavitana, it is "a representation of Parjana, the personification of the Cloud, and the horse symbolizes Agni, the Fire God and the sculpture most probably was concerned with some kind of popular agricultural ritual." In less ornamented Indian Pallava-style with elongated features. Height: 0.950 meters.
Type: image
Format: image/jp2
Identifier: acs00752.JPG
http://ccdl.claremont.edu/cdm/ref/collection/p15831coll15/id/855
Subject: Sculpture
Bas-relief
Time Period: Attributed to 7th century CE
Place: Isurumuniya (Kurunegala Road)
Anurādhapura
Sri Lanka
Relation: Ancient Buddhist Sites and Royal Residences in Sri Lanka - https://ccdl.claremont.edu/digital/collection/p15831coll15

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