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Title: Vatadāgē: seated Buddha statue
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: Seated Buddha statue on a large stone pedestal on the west side, and with the base and lower part of the dome of the central stupa behind it. Height: 1.600 meters. A square cavity at the top of the head would have been for a siraspata. The statue displays a sanghati robe over the left shoulder.
Type: image
Format: image/jp2
Identifier: acs01098.JPG
http://ccdl.claremont.edu/cdm/ref/collection/p15831coll15/id/1209
Subject: Buddha
Statues
Time Period: 12th century CE
Place: Daladā Maluva (Terrace of the Tooth Relic): Vatadāgē
Polonnaruva
Sri Lanka
Relation: Ancient Buddhist Sites and Royal Residences in Sri Lanka - https://ccdl.claremont.edu/digital/collection/p15831coll15

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