Senarat Paranavitana Commemoration VolumeSenarat Paranavitana, Leelananda Prematilleka, Johanna Engelberta van Lohuizen-De Leeuw BRILL, 1978 - 315 Seiten |
Inhalt
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A review based on new Chinese | 98 |
A survey of the attempts at its decipherment | 116 |
An aspect of Sinhalese influence in Thailand | 137 |
On the earliest Ganesa | 141 |
John Callaway in Ceylon | 181 |
A traditional folk ritual in the hill country of Sri Lanka | 204 |
The first visit of the Portuguese to Sri Lanka 1505 or 1506 | 218 |
The symbolism of the indrakila in the parittamandapa | 234 |
Traditional design and modern architecture | 251 |
Standards of Dharma | 265 |
The beginnings of the Sinhalese printing press | 283 |
The crowned Buddha | 166 |
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
ancient Anuradhapura appears Archaeological architecture Asia astamangala Avalokiteśvara Bodhisattva Brahmi Buddha Buddhist centre century A.D. Chinese Christian Cingalese cistern sluice Cocalus Cola Colombo culture Daedalus deity Dhyani-Buddhas Dipavamsa Dutch early evidence Ibid India indrakila Indus Indus script inscriptions island Jataka Kandyan Kankariya Kantalai King Malaya Kohombā labyrinth language level sluice literature London lotus Mahāvamsa Mahavihara Mahāyāna Mahosadha mentioned microliths Minos missionaries monastery monks motif Museum op.cit origin palaeography Pāli Pandya Paranavitana Peradeniya period Philipsz pillar pillar-inscription Polonnaruva Portuguese praśna printing records reference religious reservoir ritual rock-inscription royal rulers Samantabhadra Sanskrit scholars script sculpture Sinhalese Sinhalese language Sītā slab sluice Society South Indian Sri Lanka Sridevi stone story stūpa Sukhodaya symbols Tamil temple Thailand Theravāda Theseus thread tradition translated University of Ceylon University of Sri Vattam village communities Vişnu words Yeh-pa-nai-na yūpa
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 54 - If there has been a decline, it is quite likely not of larger proportion than that observed between the last quarter of the 19th and the first quarter of the 20th century and may reflect a long-term trend in the American economy rather than a sudden and abnormal change starting with the great depression. Investment, in the sense of expenditures on durable reproducible assets, is an important factor in determining the rate of economic growth...
Seite 117 - News (1924), my hope being that through the medium of that widely read journal I might succeed in getting some light thrown on their age and character by archaeologists in other countries.
Seite 62 - ... to each other without cement. The top of the platform is flat; it contains a small cylindrical well, communicating directly with the channel below, and in which the water, in passing, rises of course to the level of the lake. The water passing through the embankment, appears on the other side gushing out in a noble stream through two apertures formed by a transverse mass of rock supported by three perpendicular masses. The transverse mass, which is now cracked in two, is about twelve or fourteen...
Seite 62 - ... twenty-four feet long. It is built of oblong stones, from five to seven feet long, well wrought and fitted to each other without cement. The top of the platform is flat; it contains a small cylindrical well, communicating directly with the channel below, and in which the water in passing rises of course to the level of the lake. The water passing through the embankment appears on the other side...
Seite 117 - News, my hope being that through the medium of that widely read journal 1 might succeed in getting some light thrown on their age and character by archaeologists in other countries. This hope, I am glad to say, was at once fulfilled. In the following issue of the Illustrated London News appeared a letter from Professor Sayce, pointing out the close resemblance between these objects from the Indus Valley and certain Sumerian antiquities from Southern Mesopotamia, and a week later there appeared in...
Seite 62 - I accidentally discovered a great embankment, exceeding in magnitude that of Minere. The mouth of the outlet of the old tank is a massive work, and still nearly in perfect preservation. It is a square well, with walls formed of large stones, some of which are twelve feet by four, neatly cut, and most nicely adapted to each othsr, — to use the technical phrase, "rabbited together.
Seite 118 - Sind antiquities are closely connected and roughly contem\ porary with the Sumerian antiquities of Mesopotamia dating from the 3rd or ; 4th millennium before Christ. Simultaneously also the same conclusion was: reached by Dr. E. Mackay, Director of the American Expedition at Kish, who in an...
Seite 62 - It is built of oblong stones from five to seven feet long, well wrought and nicely adapted to each other without cement. The top of the platform is flat; it contains a small cylindrical well, communicating directly with the channel below, and in which the water, in passing, rises of course to the level of the lake. The water passing through the embankment, appears on the other side gushing out in a noble stream through two apertures formed by a transverse mass of rock supported by three perpendicular...
Seite 57 - ... with their semantic areas reciprocally limiting one another and dividing up and covering the whole sphere between...