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| Object ID | OB03071 |
| Title | Poḷonnaruva Slab of Niśśaṅka-Malla |
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| Inscription(s) | IN03091 |
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| Author | Don Martino de Zilva Wickremasinghe |
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| Description | |
| Material | Stone / unspecified |
| Object Type | Stone slab |
| Dimensions: | |
| Width | 91.44 |
| Height | 78.74 |
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| Details | A quadrangular stone slab, the surface of which has been smoothed and engraved with 23 lines of Sinhalese writing. The text is inscribed between ruled lines, 2 inches (5.08 cm) apart. A further 4 lines of Sinhalese writing are engraved on the edges of the slab (one line per edge). |
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| Place | Polonnaruwa |
| Authority | Wickremasinghe, Don Martino de Zilva. (1912-27). ‘No. 27. Poḷonnaruva: A Slab-Inscription of Niśśaṅka-Malla,’ Epigraphia Zeylanica 2, pp. 153-156. |
| Details | Wickremasinghe recorded in Epigraphia Zeylanica 2 (1912-27) that the slab was at the premises of the Archaeological Commissioner at Poḷonnaruva, to which it had be brought from “the spot where the present rest-house is”. The original site of the inscription is not known. |
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