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Rankoth Vehera (Golden Pinnacled Stupa), originally named Ruvanvēliseya (Golden Sand) stupa: Vāhalkada (Frontispiece): Image houses

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Title: Rankoth Vehera (Golden Pinnacled Stupa), originally named Ruvanvēliseya (Golden Sand) stupa: Vāhalkada (Frontispiece): Image houses
Creator: Bopearachchi, Osmund
Date Created and/or Issued: 2015
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: View of the massive stupa and pilgrims, with broad flights of stairs leading to its high platform. It is 180 feet high -- the tallest stupa after Jetavana Stupa (4th century CE) of Anuradhapura. It also is the largest stupa in Polonnaruva. Its diameter at the base is 186 feet. View includes one of the four vahalkadas (approximately 20 feet in height) flanked by image houses, all located at its base It is built on a rectangular platform (1.82 meters high from ground level) and with three basal terraces.
Type: image
Format: image/jp2
Identifier: acs01319.JPG
http://ccdl.claremont.edu/cdm/ref/collection/p15831coll15/id/1426
Subject: Shrines (structures)
Pilgrims and pilgrimages
Time Period: 12th century CE
Place: Rankoth Vehera
Polonnaruva
Sri Lanka
Relation: Ancient Buddhist Sites and Royal Residences in Sri Lanka - https://ccdl.claremont.edu/digital/collection/p15831coll15

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