The female as religious devotee

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Title

Nāginī (female cobra) devotee carrying offerings

Subject

Cobra (Nāginī)--Stone carving--Kantaka Cetiya, Mihintale--Sri Lanka
Cobras in art

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.

Creator

Sirima Kiribamune

Source

Kantaka Cetiya, Mihintale, Sri Lanka

Date

Period of study: 1986-1987
Version: 01/12/2012

Contributor

Co-Author: Seneviratna, Harsha
Technical Officer: Wijesinghe, Lalith
Technical Assistant: Jayasundare, Subhashini
Photographer: Madanayake, I.S.
International Center for Ethnic Studies, Kandy, Sri Lanka
Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation
American Institute for Sri Lankan Studies, Colombo

Rights

All rights reserved by International Center for Ethnic Studies, Sri Lanka.

Relation

Forms part of Photographic documentation of Women as depicted in early Sri Lankan sculpture and painting / Slide in present collection

Format

JPEG 2000

Language

eng

Type

image

Identifier

PDWESLSP.S.90

Coverage

ce

Citation

Sirima Kiribamune, "Nāginī (female cobra) devotee carrying offerings," online in Digital Library for International Research Archive, Item #12587, http://www.dlir.org/archive/items/show/12587 (accessed March 28, 2024).

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