Around the entrance were a number of large relief panels of standing figures, several now removed elsewhere.
📷Colossal Buddha head, in Monastery 1.
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On the outside wall the only one left in place is the female figure (illustrated) holding a flowering branch and making the varadamudra with her proper righthand.
📷Asokakanta-Marici Figure by entrance.
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📷Finely crafted sculpture of Pancika (Kubera), to the side of the main entrance of Monastery 1 and his consort Hariti, representing material and spiritual wealth at more than one level.
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Monastery 2, next to Monastery 1 but much smaller, features a central paved courtyard flanked by a pillared veranda around which are eighteen cells, a central shrine featuring an image of Shakyamuni in Varada Mudraflanked by Brahma and Sakra.
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📷1:Lion statue in front of Monastery2.
📷2:Vajrapani relief panel by entrance
📷3: Small VotiveStupa
📷4: 100's of small votive stupas at #Ratnagiri suggest it was an important site for pilgrimage & it was very likely connected to the important trade networks of ancient Kalinga
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