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Title: Frontispiece, Vāhalkada or Ayaka
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: Edges of the right and left sides of a vāhalkada. The tall pillar depicts in bas-relief a floral design (kalpalatā--creeper of life or a world period). The stele beside it has at its base a vase and above it a design based on a more elaborate motif.
Type: image
Format: image/jp2
Identifier: acs00327.jpg
http://ccdl.claremont.edu/cdm/ref/collection/p15831coll15/id/407
Subject: Vāhalkaḍa (Sri Lanka)
Time Period: Begun in 144 BCE (Vāhalkada added later)
Place: Mahāvihāra (The "great" monastery): Ruvanvälisǟya Dāgäbe (Mahāthūpa)
Anurādhapura
Sri Lanka
Relation: Ancient Buddhist Sites and Royal Residences in Sri Lanka - https://ccdl.claremont.edu/digital/collection/p15831coll15