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Maninaga Mandiraya Monastery
Mani Naga Mandira
The monastic buildings at the foot of the Mihintale Hills, just beside the begin of the stairway, are a small Arama, "Arama" being the Pali word for Sanskrit "Ashrama". It's another word for monastery. But in the case of Mihintale and other large Viharas, it's just a term for a separate group of buildings. The group of five ancient buildings, named "Mani Naga Mandira", is separated from the surrounfings by an enclosure wall called Prakara in Southasian art. It's demarkating a sacred area. In this case, the Arama compound is a square if 40 m length. The Arama consists of a group of five square buildings. They are called Prasadas.Usually this term means "palace". But it's also a word for pavilions, as ancient unfortified palaces often were groups of pavilions in a garden. Only pillars and foundations survived, as they are constructed of stone
From https://www.lanka-excursions-holidays.com/mihintale-attractions.html
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Wikipedia - Creative Commons Attribution-Sharealike 3.0 Unported License (CC-BY-SA)
"Protercted Monument List 2012-12-12" (PDF). Department of Archaeology. 12 December 2012. Retrieved 13 December 2016.