Mahailuppallama Buddha Statue

Mahailuppallama Buddha Statue (Sinhala: මහඉලුප්පල්ලම බුද්ධ ප්‍රථිමාව) is an ancient Buddha statue discovered from a paddy field in Mahailuppallama village in Anuradhapura District, Sri Lanka. It is presently placed within a site belonging to the Agriculture Faculty of the University of Peradeniya (Wikramagamage, 2004). History Dated to the 2nd-3rd century A.D., this statue is supposed to be a work of Andra country, India (Chutiwongs et al., 2007; Vanarathana Thera, 1990; Wikramagamage, 2004). The robe with convex ridges and heavy swag at the bottom, the round head with Usnisa , full cheeks, and the bi-lobed chin of this statue are characteristically similar to the Buddha images of the Amaravati tradition of India (Chutiwongs et al., 2007). The statue is believed to have either been brought to Sri Lanka from Andra or sculptured in Sri Lanka by artists hailing from Andra (Wikramagamage, 2004). Mahailuppallama Buddha image is thought to be a mother statue for the other standing Buddha ima…