Dimbulagala Hills, Sri Lanka
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| Object ID | OB03096 |
| Title | Mōlāhiṭiyavelēgala Rocks |
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| Inscription(s) | IN03118 IN03119 |
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| Author | Senarath Paranavitana |
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| Description | |
| Material | Rock |
| Object Type | Rock |
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| Details | Dimensions not reported. A low reach of rock running East–West in parallel with the Dim̆bulāgala hills, about ten miles to the south-east of Poḷonnaruva. The rock has three or four ridges. At the top of the middle ridge, four inscriptions are cut into the surface of the rock. They are engraved at the termination of two long parallel lines in the rock, possibly marking a “procession path”. |
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| Date | September 1897 |
| Place | Mōlāhiṭiyavelēgala |
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| Place | Mōlāhiṭiyavelēgala |
| Authority | Paranavitana, S. (1928-33). ‘No. 12. Two Rock Inscriptions of Bhātika Abhaya and Mahānāga at Mōlāhiṭiyavelēgala,’ Epigraphia Zeylanica 3, pp. 153-157. |
| Details | Inscriptions at the site discovered for scholarship by H. C. P. Bell in September 1897. |
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