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| Object ID | OB03073 |
| Title | Poḷonnaruva Prīti-Dānaka-Maṇḍapa Rock, Western Slope |
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| Inscription(s) | IN03093 |
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| Author | Don Martino de Zilva Wickremasinghe |
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| Description | |
| Material | Rock / granite |
| Object Type | Rock |
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| Details | Dimensions not reported. A smoothed area on the western slope of a long hummock of granite rock engraved with forty-five lines in the Sinhalese alphabet of the 12th century. The inscription is engraved between ruled lines 2¼ inches (5.72 cm) apart. Portions of lines 1 and 2, as well as a number of letters in other parts of the inscription, are no longer legible. |
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| Date | 1901 |
| Place | Polonnaruwa |
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| Place | Polonnaruwa |
| Authority | Wickremasinghe, Don Martino de Zilva. (1912-27). ‘No. 29. Poḷonnaruva: Prīti-Dānaka-Maṇḍapa Rock-Inscription,’ Epigraphia Zeylanica 2, pp. 165-178. |
| Details | Found on the western slope of a long hummock of granite rock about a mile to the north of Topaväva (possibly the rocks at 7.955402, 80.997706) by H. C. P. Bell, the Archaeological Commissioner, in September 1901 whilst exploring a collection of ruins discovered the previous year during the construction of a new road from Minneriya to Poḷonnaruva. The inscription is located just to the north of a flight of steps leading up to a ruined building. Wickremasinghe describes the granite hummock as measuring about 60 ft high, 270 ft long and 90 ft wide. |
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