[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Architecture and art](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art) › [A History of Fine Art in India and Ceylon, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.smith-1911) › c8.17 # A History of Fine Art in India and Ceylon, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day c8.17 A History of Fine Art in India and Ceylon, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day c8.17 - **Language:** English ### [c8.17](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.smith-1911.c8.17) 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). - [Previous: c8.16](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.smith-1911.c8.16) - [Next: c8.18](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.smith-1911.c8.18) - [Up: c8](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.smith-1911.c8) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.smith-1911.c8.17](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.smith-1911.c8.17) · Pramāṇa