Anuradhapura map
Publisher: ‘A handbook for travellers in India, Burma and Ceylon’ edited by Sir G. Hearn, 15th edition, (London: J. Murray; Calcutta: Thacker, Spink and Co., 1938).
Date(s): 1938.
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