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Polonnaruva: Watadage Temple

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Brown, Percy
Photographer: Arthur Llewellyn Basham

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Called by Bell "the most beautiful specimen of Buddhistic stone architecture in Ceylon." Quite possibly this was the shrine erected by Pakrama Bahu I as a "round temple of the Tooth-relic", and Nissanka Malla (1198-1209) merely restored it.

Keywords

Sri Lanka, architecture, book scan

Citation

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http://hdl.handle.net/1885/200925

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Basham Photographs

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Image

Archives Series

Date created

1956

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This item is provided for research purposes. Contact the Australian National University Archives at butlin.archives@anu.edu.au for permission to use.

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