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Title: Guardstones: Padmanidhi: Sankanidhi: Moonstone
Creator: Bopearachchi, Osmund
Date Created and/or Issued: 2015
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: Ruins of an entrance to a monastic structure. The undecorated moonstone is flanked by guardstones with figures of the two attendants, Padmanidhi and Sankanidhi, of Kuvera, god of wealth.
Type: image
Format: image/jp2
Identifier: acs00631.jpg
http://ccdl.claremont.edu/cdm/ref/collection/p15831coll15/id/737
Subject: Moonstones (Early to late Anurādhapura Period)
Monasteries
Time Period: 7th-10th century CE
Place: Vijayārāma Monastery
Anurādhapura
Sri Lanka
Relation: Ancient Buddhist Sites and Royal Residences in Sri Lanka - https://ccdl.claremont.edu/digital/collection/p15831coll15

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