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Title
Signage number 53: Bath house/Jantāghara (Jantāgara) and ground plan
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 for Bath House/Jantagara with a ground plan: "This is the place where the monks who had to maintain their bodily health anointed their bodies with medicinal powders and varieties of mud to make their bodies warm before having a steam bath. Hearths and grinding stones had been discovered here."
Type
image
Format
image/jp2
Identifier
acs00571.jpg
http://ccdl.claremont.edu/cdm/ref/collection/p15831coll15/id/690
Subject
Signs and signboards
Place
Abhayagiri Monastery
Anurādhapura
Sri Lanka
Relation
Ancient Buddhist Sites and Royal Residences in Sri Lanka - https://ccdl.claremont.edu/digital/collection/p15831coll15

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