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Title: Sri Mahā Bodhi shrine: Moonstone
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: A highly ornate moonstone at another entrance to the shrine, with many floral motifs in bands not found on a typical ornate moonstone. The tongues of fire usually at the outer edge are here close to the central lotus. There are no lions in the circle of animals and the elephants alternate between the bulls and horses. There are two circles with quartre-petal flowers. Diameter 2.140 meters. Compare with the ornate moonstone at the bottom of the final flight of stairs to the upper terrace of the shrine.
Type: image
Format: image/jp2
Identifier: acs00256.TIF
http://ccdl.claremont.edu/cdm/ref/collection/p15831coll15/id/332
Subject: Shrines (structures)
Moonstones (Early to late Anurādhapura Period)
Time Period: 3rd century BCE and later
Place: Mahāvihāra (The "great" monastery): Sri Mahā Bodhi
Anurādhapura
Sri Lanka
Relation: Ancient Buddhist Sites and Royal Residences in Sri Lanka - https://ccdl.claremont.edu/digital/collection/p15831coll15

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