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Title	Standing Buddha statue
Photographer	Bopearachchi, Osmund
Built by	Prince Agghabodhi (later King Agghabodhi IV, 667–683 CE) and/or his brother, King Dappula I.
Subject	Buddha Statues
Site Location	Maligawila (Maligawela), monastery complex, possibly at the location called Kanagama.
City/Region	Maligawila (Maligawela). Monerāgala District, Uva province. 15 km from Butthala.
Country	Sri Lanka
Year Established	7th century CE. Fallen statue, found in the 1950s, restored and raised in 1991.
Description	Close-up view from rear, showing the manner in which the statue is supported by brickwork.
Notes	Site Location attributed to the ancient great chronicle of Sri Lanka, Mahāvamsa, Chapter XLV.
Publisher	Claremont Colleges Library
Date	2005
Collection	Ancient Buddhist Sites and Royal Residences in Sri Lanka - http://cdm15831.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/landingpage/collection/p15831coll15
Rights	This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License - http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
Type	Image
Format	image/jp2
Object File Name	acs00112.JPG

Standing Buddha statue

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