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Title: Baddhasīmā Pāsāda Ālāhana Parivena: Monastic Complex
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: View of exterior, with two of the entrances and a few of the pairs of stone sima (boundary) pillars indicating the limits of the sacred area and arranged around the main edifice. They are in two different sizes and with ornamental capitals. The taller ones are 6 feet in height.
Type: image
Format: image/jp2
Identifier: acs01449.jpg
http://ccdl.claremont.edu/cdm/ref/collection/p15831coll15/id/1551
Subject: Pillars
Entrances
Monasteries
Time Period: 12th century CE
Place: Ālāhana Parivena Monastic Complex: Baddhasīmā Pāsāda
Polonnaruva
Sri Lanka
Relation: Ancient Buddhist Sites and Royal Residences in Sri Lanka - https://ccdl.claremont.edu/digital/collection/p15831coll15

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