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Title: Vāhalkada: Stele
Creator: Bopearachchi, Osmund
Date Created and/or Issued: 2014
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: Partial view of a stele; it would have been at the edge of a vāhalkada and depicts a five-hooded Nagaraja (height: 1.650 meters) and a smaller figure of a Nagini below it (height: 1.030 meters). On another side is a sculptured kalpavrsha.
Type: image
Format: image/jp2
Identifier: acs00460.JPG
http://ccdl.claremont.edu/cdm/ref/collection/p15831coll15/id/571
Subject: Stele (Archaeology)
Nāgarāja
Sculpture
Time Period: In the 1st century BCE and restored many times through the 12th century CE. Vāhalkada built in the reign of King Kanittha Tissa (226-244 CE)
Place: Abhayagiri Monastery: Abhayagiri Stūpa
Anurādhapura
Sri Lanka
Relation: Ancient Buddhist Sites and Royal Residences in Sri Lanka - https://ccdl.claremont.edu/digital/collection/p15831coll15

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