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| Object ID | OB03056 |
| Title | Ram̆bǟva Slab Inscription |
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| Inscription(s) | IN03076 |
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| Responsibility | |
| Author | Don Martino de Zilva Wickremasinghe |
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| Description | |
| Material | Stone / unspecified |
| Object Type | Pillar |
| Dimensions: | |
| Width | 76.2 |
| Height | 139.7 |
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| Details | Dimensions are for the inscribed area only. A stone slab ruled and inscribed on one side. The lines of writing are more or less worn by the action of the weather. |
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| Found: | |
| Date | 1892 |
| Place | Ram̆bǟva (Kǟn̆dǟ-kōrale) |
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| Place | Anuradhapura |
| Authority | Wickremasinghe, Don Martino de Zilva. (1912-27). ‘No. 12. Ram̆bǟva Slab Inscription,’ Epigraphia Zeylanica 2, pp. 64-70. |
| Details | Discovered in 1892 by the Archaeological Commissioner (Mr. H.C.P. Bell) “in the jungle, a hundred years south of the ‘Cooly Shelter’” at Ram̆bǟva (Rambewa) and subsequently moved to Anurādhapura. Wickremasinghe describes Ram̆bǟva as a well-known village in Kǟn̆dǟ-kōrale at the junction of the two main roads from Anurādhapura and from Mihintale, about nine miles north-east of the former town. This Ram̆bǟva should not to be confused with the village bearing the same name in Kuñcuṭṭu Kōrole, some twenty-five miles further, where a pillar inscription of king Abhaya Salamevan (IN03055) was found. |
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