Rude stone monuments in all countries; their age and uses (1872)
Fergusson, James, 1808-1886 · London, J. Murray · leaf 516
tained in some externalcase like this it is not easy to see how they could be got at. Athird indispensable part of a perfect dagoba was an enclosingrail. All the early dagobas ami all the sculptured representationspossess this adjunct. In the rock-cut examples and in the laterstructural ones the… … Dolmen at Pullicoiidah. with the Lanka or Thupa Ramayana dagobas, we cannot fail tobe struck with their similarity. Both possess the mound, the rail,and the tee; and in this last instance it is a simulattd tomb, suchas many in Europe are suspected of haAing been. That a peoplemight both bury in…
Megalithic monuments
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