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Title: Royal Palace ruins: Guardstone: Sankhanidhi
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: The figure of Sankhanidhi, holding a string of coins, fills the entire space within the guardstone, in gneiss, at the left side of the steps. Height: 0645 meters. The guardstone may not be the original one.
Type: image
Format: image/jp2
Identifier: acs00066.JPG
http://ccdl.claremont.edu/cdm/ref/collection/p15831coll15/id/247
Subject: Sculpture
Palaces
Time Period: 1070 CE
Place: Citadel
Anurādhapura
Sri Lanka
Relation: Ancient Buddhist Sites and Royal Residences in Sri Lanka - https://ccdl.claremont.edu/digital/collection/p15831coll15

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