Abhayagiri vihara, Anuradhapura
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| Object ID | OB03022 |
| Title | Anuradhapura Slab of Kassapa V |
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| Inscription(s) | IN03027 |
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| Author | Don Martino de Zilva Wickremasinghe |
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| Description | |
| Material | Stone / unspecified |
| Object Type | Stone slab |
| Dimensions: | |
| Width | 99.6 |
| Height | 162.6 |
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| Details | Dimensions are for the inscribed area. A stone slab with a smoothed surface. The edges of the slab are marked by a neatly moulded framing. |
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| Date | 1870s or early 1880s |
| Place | Abhayagiri Vihāra |
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| Place | Unknown |
| Authority | Wickremasinghe, Don Martino de Zilva. (1904-12). ‘No. 4. Anuradhapura: Slab-Inscription of Kassapa V,’ Epigraphia Zeylanica 1, pp. 41-57. |
| Details | Discovered in the 1870s or early 1880s during excavations at the ruins around the so-called ‘stone canopy’, about one and a half miles north of the Sacred Bōdhi-tree at Anurāpura. At the time, this area was thought to be the site of the ancient Jētavanārāma monastery but it has subsequently been identified as the Abhayagiri monastery. |
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