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| Object ID | OB03041 |
| Title | Jētavanārāma Slab 1 of Mahinda IV |
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| Inscription(s) | IN03061 |
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| Related Objects | OB03042 |
| Responsibility | |
| Author | Don Martino de Zilva Wickremasinghe |
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| Description | |
| Material | Stone / unspecified |
| Object Type | Stone slab |
| Dimensions: | |
| Width | 119.38 |
| Height | 187.96 |
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| Details | Dimensions are for the inscribed area only. A stone slab smoothed on one side, ruled for inscription and engraved with 55 lines of writing in the Sinhalese alphabet of the 10th and early 11th centuries A.D. |
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| Found: | |
| Date | 1890 |
| Place | Abhayagiri Vihāra |
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| Place | Abhayagiri Vihāra |
| Authority | Wickremasinghe, Don Martino de Zilva. (1904-12). ‘No. 19. Jētavanārāma Slab-Inscription (No. 1) of Mahinda IV (circa 1026-1042 A.D.),’ Epigraphia Zeylanica 1, pp. 213-229. |
| Details | Examined by Bell in 1890. The slab was found lying in what was at the time believed to be the Jētavanārāma area, not far from the ‘stone canoe’ (trough) on the outer circular road in Anurādhapura. This area has since been shown to be the Abhayagiri monastery complex. |
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