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| Object ID | OB03057 |
| Title | Ruvanväli-Dāgaba Slab of Kīrti-Niśśaṅka-Malla |
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| Inscription(s) | IN03077 |
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| Author | Don Martino de Zilva Wickremasinghe |
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| Description | |
| Material | Stone / unspecified |
| Object Type | Pillar |
| Dimensions: | |
| Width | 111.76 |
| Height | 127 |
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| Details | A fixed stone slab, the side of which is smoothed, ruled and engraved with an inscription in the Sinhalese alphabet of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. |
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| Found: | |
| Date | 1874 |
| Place | Ruwanweli Dagoba |
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| Place | Ruwanweli Dagoba |
| Authority | Wickremasinghe, Don Martino de Zilva. (1912-27). ‘No. 13. The Slab-Inscription of Kīrti-Niśśaṅka-Malla (1187-1196 A.D.) at Ruvanväli-Dāgaba, Anurādhapura,’ Epigraphia Zeylanica 2, pp. 70-83. |
| Details | Discovered in 1874 by Nāranviṭa Thēra near the eastern altar of the Ruvanväli-dāgaba in Anurādhapura. The slab was described as standing erect in a bed of brickwork, flanked by two monolithic pillars, within a few yards of the statues. |
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