A History of Fine Art in India and Ceylon, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day c13.s6.15
A History of Fine Art in India and Ceylon, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day c13.s6.15
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The stately colossal standing image at the Gal-vihāre, Polonnāruwa, popularly known, and apparently rightly, as that of Ānanda, the disciple of Buddha, is one of the most imposing and interesting statues in Ceylon (Plate XLIX). The faithful attendant stands watching a colossal recumbent figure of his dying Master.