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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
Collection
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).