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| Object ID | OB03076 |
| Title | Bōpiṭiya Slab of Kalyāṇavatī |
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| Inscription(s) | IN03096 |
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| Author | Don Martino de Zilva Wickremasinghe |
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| Description | |
| Material | Stone / unspecified |
| Object Type | Stone slab |
| Dimensions: | |
| Width | 76.2 |
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| Details | A stone slab in two fragments: the first piece is the top portion of the slab and contains six lines of an inscription engraved between ruled lines three inches (7.62 cm) apart; the second piece evidently belongs to the lower part of the slab and features the words hira sanda (‘sun and moon’), which usually occur at the end of a grant. |
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| Found: | |
| Date | between 1906 and 1912 |
| Place | Bōpiṭiya |
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| Place | Bōpiṭiya |
| Authority | Wickremasinghe, Don Martino de Zilva. (1912-27). ‘No. 32 Bōpiṭiya Slab-Inscription of Kalyāṇavatī,’ Epigraphia Zeylanica 2, pp. 190-192. |
| Details | Discovered between the years 1906 and 1912 in Bōpiṭiya, a village in Hevāvissa Kōrale in the Central Province of Ceylon (probably around 7°11'45"N, 80°44'37"E). |
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