Interpretation of Queen Maya's Dream (Colombo National Museum)
Interpretation of Queen Maya's Dream (Colombo National Museum)
A hard limestone slab depicting the Interpretation of Queen Maya's Dream (Sinhala: මායා දේවියගේ සිහිනයේ අර්ථ දැක්වීම) is presently on the display in the Gallery of Anuradhapura Period in Colombo National Museum , Sri Lanka. Discovery This slab was discovered in 1894 along with another slab depicting " Queen Maya's Dream " during the irrigation works in a paddy field about a mile from Anuradhapura (Bopearachchi, 2012). It is said that these were found in a Bodhighara Shrine popularly known as "Kurunegala-road-shrine" (Bopearachchi, 2012). The stone pediment and the inner basement of this shrine have now been reconstructed at the premises of the Colombo National Museum (Bopearachchi, 2012). The slab This slab measures 64 cm x 38 cm x 9 cm (Bopearachchi, 2020). It is believed to have been imported from Nagarjunakonda (Andra Pradesh in South India) as they have their iconographic and stylistic counterparts in many of Amaravati sculptures found there (Bopearachchi, …