Image / Vāhalkada: Stele: Cobra with hood

Have a question about this item?

Item Information. View source record on contributor's website.

Title: Vāhalkada: Stele: Cobra with hood
Creator: Bopearachchi, Osmund
Date Created and/or Issued: 2014
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: Stele with a coiled cobra with five-hooded head and a decorated stone frame. A pair of such stelae would have been placed on either side of the vāhalkada.
Type: image
Format: image/jp2
Identifier: acs00470.JPG
http://ccdl.claremont.edu/cdm/ref/collection/p15831coll15/id/575
Subject: Stele (Archaeology)
Sculpture
Time Period: In the 1st century BCE and restored many times through the 12th century CE. Vāhalkada built in the reign of King Kanittha Tissa (226-244 CE)
Place: Abhayagiri Monastery: Abhayagiri Stūpa
Anurādhapura
Sri Lanka
Relation: Ancient Buddhist Sites and Royal Residences in Sri Lanka - https://ccdl.claremont.edu/digital/collection/p15831coll15