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Title
Guardstone
Creator
Bopearachchi, Osmund
Date Created and/or Issued
2007
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
Guardstone on right side of one of the stairways. The figure is a nāgarāja with a halo of a multi-hooded anthropomorphic cobra-king. The right hand is damaged (as is the face) and the left holds the long stem of a flower.
Type
image
Format
image/jp2
Identifier
acs00069.JPG
http://ccdl.claremont.edu/cdm/ref/collection/p15831coll15/id/146
Subject
Nāgarāja
Stairs
Time Period
7th century CE
Place
Dambegoda
Sri Lanka
Relation
Ancient Buddhist Sites and Royal Residences in Sri Lanka - https://ccdl.claremont.edu/digital/collection/p15831coll15

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