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Title: Signage number 12: Dipauyana (Island Park): Promontory
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: Text of signage: "Within these premises are found the ruins of many important monuments including the Audience Hall of King Nissankamalla. This has also been identified as the location of the Dipauyana (Island Park) built by King Parākramabāhu the Great (1153-1186 AD). The bathing pond to the extreme south may be Ananta Naga Pokuna built by him. King Nissankamalla built his audience hall within this park and renamed it Kalinga Uyana [Kalinga Park, with a reference to his own heritage]. Near this garden are the ruins of something like a summer house built in the Parakrama Samudra."
Type: image
Format: image/jp2
Identifier: acs01221.jpg
http://ccdl.claremont.edu/cdm/ref/collection/p15831coll15/id/1358
Subject: Inscriptions
Signs and signboards
Time Period: 12th century CE
Place: Dipauyana (Island Park), now called "The Promontory"
Polonnaruva
Sri Lanka
Relation: Ancient Buddhist Sites and Royal Residences in Sri Lanka - https://ccdl.claremont.edu/digital/collection/p15831coll15

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