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| Object ID | OB03027 |
| Title | Dambulla Cave Temple |
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| Inscription(s) | IN03032 |
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| Author | Don Martino de Zilva Wickremasinghe |
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| Description | |
| Material | Rock / gneiss |
| Object Type | Cave |
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| Details | A rock temple built underneath an enormous boulder of gneiss, upwards of 160 m in height and about 600 m in length. |
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| Place | Dambulla |
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| Place | Dambulla |
| Authority | Wickremasinghe, Don Martino de Zilva. (1904-12). ‘No. 9. Dam̆bulla Rock-Inscription of Kīrti Niśśaṅka Malla (1189-1198 A.D.),’ Epigraphia Zeylanica 1, pp. 121-135. |
| Details | The temple complex is located at Dambulla (7.856667, 80.649167). It dates back to the first century BCE. Kīrti Niśśaṅka Malla gilded the caves and added a number of statues in about 1190. |
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