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Title: Stēle: Chakravartin
Creator: Bopearachchi, Osmund
Date Created and/or Issued: 2008
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: Close up of the upper panel of a stēle at the east end of the northern Vāhalkada, with probably a Chakravartin (universal monarch)/yaksha (with two of seven "jewels” depicted: an elephant and a horse). He also has in his right hand a vajra (thunderbolt).
Type: image
Format: image/jp2
Identifier: acs00706.jpg
http://ccdl.claremont.edu/cdm/ref/collection/p15831coll15/id/803
Subject: Sculpture
Time Period: Built in 3rd-4th century CE and thereafter
Place: Jetavana Monastery: Jetavana Stūpa
Anurādhapura
Sri Lanka
Relation: Ancient Buddhist Sites and Royal Residences in Sri Lanka - https://ccdl.claremont.edu/digital/collection/p15831coll15

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