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Fragmentary sculpture of a woman devotee
Description: During recent excavations near the Jetavanarama stupa (Sri Lanka) was discovered this fragmentary sculpture of a woman with hands joined together in worship. Possibly a work of the early Anuradhapura period, it is presently housed in the site museum at the Jetavanarama Cultural Triangle Project in Anuradhapura, Sri Lanka.
Contributor: Co-Author: Seneviratna, Harsha
Collection: Women in Sri Lankan Sculpture and Painting
Nagini (female cobra) accompanied by a female dwarf (gana)
Description: This stone relief of a nagi goddess is known to have occupied a small niche on a stele, at one of the vahalkadas of the Jetavanarama dagoba, attributed to the early centuries of the Christian era. She is accompanied by a female dwarf with offerings. This picture is taken from a photograph available in the Department of Archaeology, Sri Lanka.
Contributor: Co-Author: Seneviratna, Harsha
Collection: Women in Sri Lankan Sculpture and Painting
A woman devotee with a child and a maid, carrying offerings
Description: A woman of elite status accompanied by a child and a maid carrying offerings form the subject of this limestone sculpture which now lies on the pavement of the Ruvanvalisaya at Anuradhapura, Sri Lanka. The carving probably belonged to one of the vahalkadas here which can be dated to the early centuries of the Christian era.
Contributor: Co-Author: Seneviratna, Harsha
Collection: Women in Sri Lankan Sculpture and Painting
Nāginī (female cobra) devotee carrying offerings
Description: Carved on the uppermost panel of a stele at the eastern vahalkada of the Kantaka cetiya at Mihintale, Sri Lanka, is this relief of a nagi and naga in human form. The sculpture, which is in a very bad state of preservation, depicts the nagi with a single cobra hood walking behind the naga carrying some form of offering. Unlike in the Abhayagiri and Jetavana vahalkada sculptures, in this particular example, the male and female are about the same height.
Contributor: Co-Author: Seneviratna, Harsha
Collection: Women in Sri Lankan Sculpture and Painting
The female as religious devotee
Description: The female as religious devotee: Women, both supernatural and human, carrying offerings to or worshipping at shrines, form a popular theme in early Sri Lankan sculpture and painting.
Contributor: Co-Author: Seneviratna, Harsha
Collection: Women in Sri Lankan Sculpture and Painting
