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Object ID OB03077
Title Räkiṭipe Pillar Fragment of Līlāvatī
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Inscription(s) IN03097
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Author Don Martino de Zilva Wickremasinghe
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Description
Material Stone / unspecified
Object Type Pillar
Dimensions:
Width 34.29
Height
Depth 34.29
Weight
Details A stone fragment which originally formed the top of a pillar measuring around 13½ inches (34.29 cm) square. The fragment is engraved with emblems of the sun and moon. Beneath these emblems, ten lines of text are inscribed between ruled lines two inches (5.08 cm) apart.
History
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Found:
Date between 1906 and 1912
Place Räkiṭipe
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Place Räkiṭipe
Authority Wickremasinghe, Don Martino de Zilva. (1912-27). ‘No. 33 Räkiṭipe Pillar Inscription of Līlāvatī,’ Epigraphia Zeylanica 2, pp. 192-194.
Details Found between the years 1906 and 1912 in the village of Räkiṭipe in Unantänna-vasam, Diyatilaka kōrale in the Nuvara Eliya District.
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