Gal Vihara, Polonnaruwa. Photograph by John & Co. Published in: The Buddhist Annual of Ceylon, vol. 3, no. 2 (1928), p. 89.
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The inscription is engraved on the smoothed area of sloping rock to the right of the cave entrance.
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| Object ID | OB03084 |
| Title | Poḷonnaruva Gal-Vihāra Inscribed Rockface |
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| Inscription(s) | IN03104 |
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| Author | Don Martino de Zilva Wickremasinghe |
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| Description | |
| Material | Rock / granite |
| Object Type | Rock |
| Dimensions: | |
| Width | 403.86 |
| Height | 297.18 |
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| Details | A sloping granite rockface, chiselled smooth to receive a long Sinhalese inscription, which is engraved between ruled lines 2½ inches (6.35 cm) apart. The inscription is now badly weathered. |
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| Place | Polonnaruwa |
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| Place | Polonnaruwa |
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| Place | Polonnaruwa |
| Authority | Wickremasinghe, Don Martino de Zilva. (1912-27). ‘No. 41. (Reg. No. 278.) Poḷonnaruva, Gal-Vihāra: Rock-Inscription of Parakkama-Bāhu I (1153–1186 A.D.),’ Epigraphia Zeylanica 2, pp. 256-283. |
| Details | Located immediately to the right of the central cave shrine at the rock-cut temple known as Gal-vihāra, which is situated in Polonnaruwa, about one and a half miles north of the Promontory. Famed for its four large rock-relief statues of the Buddha, this temple was originally known as Uttarārāma (North Park). |
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