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Title: Stūpa: Kantaka Cētiya: Vāhalkada: Lion stele
Creator: Bopearachchi, Osmund
Date Created and/or Issued: 2005
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: Close-up of the top of a side of the decorated stele which is crowned by a lion figure, at the left side of the northern vāhalkada. Two yaksha figures in bas-relief (one female and the other male) are depicted in motion.
Type: image
Format: image/jp2
Identifier: acs00918.JPG
http://ccdl.claremont.edu/cdm/ref/collection/p15831coll15/id/990
Subject: Bas-relief
Sculpture
Stele (Archaeology)
Time Period: 1st or 2nd century CE
Place: Mihintalē (Plateau of Mahinda)
Anurādhapura region
Sri Lanka
Relation: Ancient Buddhist Sites and Royal Residences in Sri Lanka - https://ccdl.claremont.edu/digital/collection/p15831coll15