This inscription is engraved on a stone slab preserved in the Archaeological Museum at Anurādhapura. The slab’s original provenance is not known, the museum’s records stating only that it was removed to the museum from the Government Agent’s premises at Anurādhapura. It appears that the slab was previously used as a tread in a flight of steps. The inscription consists of two lines and can be assigned on palaeographic grounds to the end of the seventh century A.D. It declares that the step on which it is written was the gift of an individual, presumably a monk, named Daḷanā.
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| Inscription ID | IN03183 |
| Title | Anurādhapura Archaeological Museum Stone Step Inscription |
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| Parent Object | OB03144 |
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| Author | Senarath Paranavitana |
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| Language | සිංහල |
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| Topic | declares that the step on which it is written was the gift of an individual, presumably a monk, named Daḷanā |
| Date: | |
| Min | 650 |
| Max | 700 |
| Comment | Basis for dating: palaeography. |
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| Letter size | 3.81 cm |
| Description | The letters are 1 to 1½ inches (2.54 to 3.81 cm) in size. |
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| Width | 67.31 |
| Height | 7.62 |
| Description | 2 lines engraved on a stone slab, which apparently originally formed the tread of a step. |
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| References | Edited and translated by Senarath Paranavitana in Epigraphia Zeylanica 4 (1934–41): 144–145, no. 17, IV. |
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