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Title: Isurumuniya, rock temple: Entrance to shrine
Creator: de Silva, Preethi
Date Created and/or Issued: 1999
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: Entrance to the shrine (temple). The two stairways are separated by a landing. A moonstone, balustrades, and two similar guardstones comprising Nagarajas with seven-hooded cobra heads and two nidhis flanking the feet of the Nagaraja, are at the bottom of each flight of stairs. The risers between the steps are decorated with dwarf figures.
Type: image
Format: image/jp2
Identifier: acs00739.jpg
http://ccdl.claremont.edu/cdm/ref/collection/p15831coll15/id/854
Subject: Stairs
Sculpture
Moonstones (Early to late Anurādhapura Period)
Nāgarāja
Shrines (structures)
Time Period: Originally from 3rd century BCE, with later additions
Place: Isurumuniya (Kurunegala Road)
Anurādhapura
Sri Lanka
Relation: Ancient Buddhist Sites and Royal Residences in Sri Lanka - https://ccdl.claremont.edu/digital/collection/p15831coll15

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