Rankoth Vehera, Polonnaruwa.

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Object ID OB03066
Title Poḷonnaruva Rankot-Dāgaba Gal-Āsana
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Inscription(s) IN03086
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Author Don Martino de Zilva Wickremasinghe
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Description
Material Stone / unspecified
Object Type seat
Dimensions:
Width 91.44
Height 91.44
Depth 91.44
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Details A stone-seat (āsana) with moulded sides. The smoothed upper surface of the seat is engraved around all four sides with six lines of writing, leaving a blank space measuring 16 in (40.64 cm) by 15½ in (39.37 cm) in the centre.
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Authority Wickremasinghe, Don Martino de Zilva. (1912-27). ‘No. 22. Poḷonnaruva: Rankot-Dāgaba Gal-Āsana Inscription,’ Epigraphia Zeylanica 2, pp. 134-137.
Details Discovered in the jungle some two hundred yards to the east of the ruin known as Ran-kot-vehera in Poḷonnaruva.
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