Northern bathing pool with bas-relief of an elephant sculpture. The elephants frolicking in a pond, as carved out of the rock on the right side of the chamber next to the bathing pool, are justly famous and would have been a delightful feature of the royal pleasure gardens. Three other elephant figures are carved on the left side of the chamber. Compare these with elephants in bas-relief at Isurumuniya nearby. They are considered to have been influenced by Pallava (South Indian) works.
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