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Title: Vāhalkada
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: Section of vāhalkada with the delicate dormer-window embellishment between the bands with the animals and the brackets, developed from the horse-shoe arch present also in some Buddhist monuments in India.
Type: image
Format: image/tiff
Identifier: acs00232.TIF
http://ccdl.claremont.edu/cdm/ref/collection/p15831coll15/id/307
Subject: Vāhalkaḍa (Sri Lanka)
Time Period: 158-155 BCE
Place: Mirisavātiya Dāgäbe
Anurādhapura
Sri Lanka
Relation: Ancient Buddhist Sites and Royal Residences in Sri Lanka - https://ccdl.claremont.edu/digital/collection/p15831coll15

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