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# A History of Fine Art in India and Ceylon, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day c15.s7.2

A History of Fine Art in India and Ceylon, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day c15.s7.2

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### [c15.s7.2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.smith-1911.c15.s7.2)

Certain pictures of \*jātaka\* stories painted on the walls of the Mahā Damala Saya shrine at Polonnāruwa, the twelfth-century capital, are said to resemble the Sīgiriya frescoes rather than modern work, but I am not in a position to fix their age, or to present copies of them.³

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## Cites (1)

- [Jātaka](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.khuddaka.jataka) — Pāli

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