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Title: Standing Gotama Buddha statue
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: The right shoulder of the statue is bare, and the right hand in asisa mudrā-- the blessing attitude, which is a variation of the abhaya mudrā, with the right hand facing inward to the left side rather than outward. The left hand holds the robe at the shoulder. The robe has finely carved pleats. This image is now in a new image house. Height: circa 2.520 meters. This has been heavily restored.
Type: image
Format: image/jp2
Identifier: acs00340.jpg
http://ccdl.claremont.edu/cdm/ref/collection/p15831coll15/id/432
Subject: Statues
Time Period: Circa 8th century CE
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

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