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Title
Lion Pond/Bath (Sinha Pokuna)
Creator
Bopearachchi, Osmund
Date Created and/or Issued
2010
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
Decorated frieze with bas-reliefs surrounding the open-air bath, called a pond, with a lion figure standing on its hind quarters sculpted out of the living granite rock below it. The square pond, half of which is cut out of the live rock, measures 1.800 meters and has a depth of 2.100 meters. Surplus water is discharged through the mouth of the lion. The water was supplied by a channel from the Nāga Pokuna (Cobra pond) at a higher elevation. The pond is one of three major sources of water in Mihintale, which also included the Kaludiya Pokuna and Nāga Pokuna.
Type
image
Format
image/jp2
Identifier
acs00871.JPG
http://ccdl.claremont.edu/cdm/ref/collection/p15831coll15/id/988
Subject
Bas-relief
Bathhouses
Time Period
Unknown
Place
Mihintalē (Plateau of Mahinda)
Anurādhapura region
Sri Lanka
Relation
Ancient Buddhist Sites and Royal Residences in Sri Lanka - https://ccdl.claremont.edu/digital/collection/p15831coll15

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