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Salban Vihar, Mainamati – Lalmai { Before Restoration }
Salban Vihar, Mainamati – Lalmai { After Restoration }
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Salban Vihar, Mainamati – Lalmai
 
It is a large quadrangular monastery with a cruciform central shrine with an elaborate gateway complex on the north. It has 115 monastic cells. According to a terracotta inscribed seal it was built during the Deva King Bhava Deva in the early 8th century A.D. The lower basement of its central temple in relieved with frieze of terracotta plaques depicting scene mostly from the folk life of ancient Bengal.
     
 
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