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| Object ID | OB03026 |
| Title | Anuradhapura Slab of Mahinda IV |
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| Inscription(s) | IN03031 |
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| Author | Don Martino de Zilva Wickremasinghe |
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| Description | |
| Material | Stone / unspecified |
| Object Type | Stone slab |
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| Width | 81.28 |
| Height | 195.58 |
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| Details | Dimensions are for the inscribed area only. A stone slab with a smoothed surface. The surface has been damaged, probably as a result of things being rubbed or ground on the slab, obliterating part of the inscription. |
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| Place | Anuradhapura |
| Authority | Wickremasinghe, Don Martino de Zilva. (1904-12). ‘No. 8. Anduradhapura Slab Inscription of Mahinda IV Near the Stone-Canoe,’ Epigraphia Zeylanica 1, pp. 113-120. |
| Details | Wickremasinghe (1904-12) reported the location of the slab as “near the so-called ‘stone-canoe’, a few yards to the east of the Thūpārāma dāgäba” in Anuradhapura (8.355499, 80.396425). |
| Notes | In 'The Buried Cities of Ceylon' (1905: 55), S. M. Burrows writes about the stone-canoe: “A few yards to the east of the Thūparāma, on the north side of the inner circular road, is a beautiful carved cistern, 10ft. long by 5 ft. 3 in. wide and 2 ft. 6 in. deep, made out of a single block of granite, and said to date from the time of Duṭugẹmunu. It was probably used to hold food for the priests”. |