A History of Fine Art in India and Ceylon, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day c13.s6.7
A History of Fine Art in India and Ceylon, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day c13.s6.7
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Two seated Buddhas strike me as being excellent works and out of the common—namely, the colossal image at the Pankuliya Vihāre, Anurādhapura (Fig. 178), and the smaller image from Vihāre, No. 2, Polonnāruwa (Fig. 179). The characteristic points of each appear sufficiently from the photographs without detailed comment. Mr. Bell conjectures that the Pankuliya statue may date from the tenth century; the Polonnāruwa image may be two centuries later.