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Title: View of the Water Gardens
Creator: de Silva, Preethi
Date Created and/or Issued: 1995
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: Layout of the gardens, looking westward, including at right foreground a section of the octagonal pond at the meeting point of the Water and Boulder Gardens.
Type: image
Format: image/jp2
Identifier: acs01637.jpg
http://ccdl.claremont.edu/cdm/ref/collection/p15831coll15/id/1751
Subject: Ponds
Gardens
Time Period: 5th century CE
Place: Sigiriya Rock: Palace and Gardens
Sigiriya/Matale District
Sri Lanka
Source: Bandaranayake, Senaka. Sigiriya Heritage City. Ratmalana (Sri Lanka): Sarvodaya Vishva Lehka, 1999. — "Sigiriya: City, Palace and Royal Gardens," in The Cultural Triangle of Sri Lanka. [Paris]: Unesco Pub. ; Colombo : Central Cultural Fund, 2004, ©1993. Abeysinghe, Abeyratna Banda. An Archeological Guide to Sigiri Frescoes. 1st edition. Colombo: Gunasena/The Author, 1995. Wikramagamage, Chandra. Sigiriya and the the Artistic Expression of the Sunset. Trans.H.A.P. Abeyawardana. Maharagama( Sri Lanka). Tharanjee Prints. 2011.
Relation: Ancient Buddhist Sites and Royal Residences in Sri Lanka - https://ccdl.claremont.edu/digital/collection/p15831coll15

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