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Title: Chahar bagh Water/Pleasure Gardens
Creator: Bopearachchi, Osmund
Date Created and/or Issued: 2002
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: Zone of pleasure gardens characterised by a central island surrounded by four L-shaped pools, designed according to the ancient concept of a quartered garden or chahar bagh. The "pleasure gardens" are also referrred by others to as the "Water Gardens."
Type: image
Format: image/jp2
Identifier: acs01608.JPG
http://ccdl.claremont.edu/cdm/ref/collection/p15831coll15/id/1727
Subject: Gardens
Time Period: 5th century CE
Place: Sigiriya Rock: Palace and Gardens
Sigiriya/Matale District
Sri Lanka
Source: Bopearachchi, Osmund, “The Pleasure Gardens of Sigiriya: A New Approach” in From Bactria to Taprobane, Volume II: Art History and Maritime Trade. New Delhi: Manohar, 2015.
Relation: Ancient Buddhist Sites and Royal Residences in Sri Lanka - https://ccdl.claremont.edu/digital/collection/p15831coll15