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 |
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| 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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| Place | Polonnaruwa |
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| Place | Polonnaruwa |
| 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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