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Monastic Residential complex, Pañcakāvāsa: "Mahasen's pavilion," Area above Moonstone: Sculptured lion in mid-relief

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Title: Monastic Residential complex, Pañcakāvāsa: "Mahasen's pavilion," Area above Moonstone: Sculptured lion in mid-relief
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: The area above the moonstone has several sculptured figures in stone. Frontal view of an often-encountered lion figure in relief at a corner of the short boundary wall at the landing area of the flight of steps of the entrance to the Pañcakāvāsa monastic residential complex, earlier called "Mahasen's Pavilion." The exquisitely executed lion figure is one of two on opposite sides at the top of the flight of steps. A sculptured fully-open lotus-blossom embellishment is above the figure of the lion.
Type: image
Format: image/jp2
Identifier: acs00614.jpg
http://ccdl.claremont.edu/cdm/ref/collection/p15831coll15/id/668
Subject: Sculpture
Time Period: Circa 6th-8th century CE
Place: Abhayagiri Monastery
Anurādhapura
Sri Lanka
Relation: Ancient Buddhist Sites and Royal Residences in Sri Lanka - https://ccdl.claremont.edu/digital/collection/p15831coll15

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