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| Object ID | OB03079 |
| Title | Poḷonnaruva Slab of Sāhasa-Malla |
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| Inscription(s) | IN03099 |
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| Responsibility | |
| Author | Don Martino de Zilva Wickremasinghe |
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| Description | |
| Material | Stone / unspecified |
| Object Type | Stone slab |
| Dimensions: | |
| Width | 198.12 |
| Height | 83.82 |
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| Details | A stone slab engraved on both sides with an inscription. Both sides of the slab have been made smooth and ruled horizontally with lines 2 inches (5.08 cm) apart, between which the letters of the inscription are boldly engraved. |
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| Found: | |
| Date | sometime before 1874 |
| Place | Polonnaruwa |
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| Place | Polonnaruwa |
| Authority | Wickremasinghe, Don Martino de Zilva. (1912-27). ‘No. 36. Poḷonnaruva: Slab-Inscription of Sāhasa-Malla,’ Epigraphia Zeylanica 2, pp. 219-229. |
| Details | Discovered sometime before 1874, standing upright at a spot north of the Häṭadāgē in Poḷonnaruva. Writing in 1924, Wickremasinghe recorded that the slab was found “more than half a century ago” but gives no further details of the discovery. |
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