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Title: Stupa: Kiri Vehera: vahālkada
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: Restored stupa, painted in white. Two shrines or possibly flower altars (of a total of eight) flank one of the four vahālkadas in brick and lime plaster. At left is another of the four vahālkada located at the cardinal points.
Type: image
Format: image/jp2
Identifier: acs01279.jpg
http://ccdl.claremont.edu/cdm/ref/collection/p15831coll15/id/1394
Subject: Shrines (structures)
Time Period: 12th century CE
Place: Kiri Vehera (milk-colored) stupa
Polonnaruva
Sri Lanka
Relation: Ancient Buddhist Sites and Royal Residences in Sri Lanka - https://ccdl.claremont.edu/digital/collection/p15831coll15

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