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| Object ID | OB03043 |
| Title | Vēvälkäṭiya Slab of Mahinda IV |
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| Inscription(s) | IN03063 |
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| Responsibility | |
| Author | Don Martino de Zilva Wickremasinghe |
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| Description | |
| Material | Stone / unspecified |
| Object Type | Stone slab |
| Dimensions: | |
| Width | 182.88 |
| Height | 46.99 |
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| Details | Dimensions are for the inscribed area only. A large slab, ruled and inscribed on one side with forty-five lines of Sinhalese text. |
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| Date | 1875 |
| Place | Vēvälkäṭiya |
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| Place | Vēvälkäṭiya |
| Authority | Wickremasinghe, Don Martino de Zilva. (1904-12). ‘No. 21. Vēvälkäṭiya Slab-Inscription of Mahinda IV (circa 1026-1042 A.D.),’ Epigraphia Zeylanica 1, pp. 241-251. |
| Details | Discovered by Goldschmidt in 1875 at Vēvälkäṭiya, a small village in Pahala Kǟňdā Tulāna in Kǟňdā Kōrale, about 21 miles to the north-east of Anurādhapura. It was subsequently examined by Müller in 1883, who noted that “Wewelkaeṭiya” is situated “11 miles from Madawacci on the Horowapotāna road”, and then by Bell in 1891. |
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