A History of Fine Art in India and Ceylon, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day c8.17

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¹ i.e. the Jetawana as ordinarily understood. Mr. Parker shows good reason for believing that the so-called Jetawana is really the Abhayagiri, which stood to the north of Anurādhapura, and that the true Jetawana is the building to the east of the Sela chaitya (*Ancient Ceylon*, p. 300). between the domed *stūpa* and somewhat similar Phoenician tombs, as at Amrith (Perrot and Chipiez, *Hist. de l'Art, Phénicie*, fig. 94, 95; *Ancient Ceylon*, p. 261). The late Dr. Bloch, who opened some of the tumuli near Nandangarh in the Champāran District, believed them to be royal tombs of the seventh or eighth century B.C. (*Ann. Rep. A. S., Eastern Circle*, 1908-9, p. 3).