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Title: Standing Buddha statue in image house: Patima Vihāra or Ariyākara Vihāra (Mahāvamsa)
Creator: de Silva, Preethi
Date Created and/or Issued: 1999
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: Side view, showing two sides of brick wall of gedigē (image house) ruins.
Type: image
Format: image/jp2
Identifier: acs00078.jpg
http://ccdl.claremont.edu/cdm/ref/collection/p15831coll15/id/158
Subject: Buddha
Statues
Time Period: 7th century CE. Fallen statue, found in the 1950s, restored and raised in 1991
Place: Maligawila (Maligawela), monastery complex, possibly at the location called Kanagama.
Maligawila (Maligawela). Monerāgala District, Uva province. 15 km from Butthala.
Sri Lanka
Relation: Ancient Buddhist Sites and Royal Residences in Sri Lanka - https://ccdl.claremont.edu/digital/collection/p15831coll15

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