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Art. V.—The Dâgabas of Anurâdhapura

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 March 2011

John Capper
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In 1875 my son, the late George Capper, a Ceylon official surveyor, was employed during nearly two years in making measurements and drawings of the principle ruins at Anurâdhapura. The results of his labours were shown in upwards of thirty large sheets of tracings, which have since been copied and forwarded to the Colonial Office in London.

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Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society , Volume 20 , Issue 2 , April 1888 , pp. 165 - 180
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Copyright © The Royal Asiatic Society 1888

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page 180 note 1 Dâ-gaba is the contraction of the Pâli Dhâtu-gabbha ‘Reliccasket;’ but it is used exclusively of these solid bell-shaped domes.

page 180 note 2 Original height from the ground to the top of spire, 405 feet (Tennent, vol. ii. p. 621),Google Scholar that is to say, about ten feet higher than the topmost point of St. Paul's; the latter being only 396 feet high.