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| Object ID | OB03097 |
| Title | Kuccavēli Inscribed Boulder |
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| Inscription(s) | IN03120 |
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| Author | Senarath Paranavitana |
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| Description | |
| Material | Rock / gneiss |
| Object Type | Rock |
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| Details | Dimensions not reported. A gneiss boulder bearing a Sanskrit inscription and a series of low-relief carvings. An area of the boulder’s surface measuring about four feet (121.92 cm) square has been partitioned into sixteen compartments of equal proportions, into each of which has been carved a representation of a stūpa in low relief. To the left of this area is the inscription, which consists of eight lines. |
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| Place | Kuchchaveli |
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| Place | Kuchchaveli |
| Authority | Paranavitana, S. (1928-33). ‘No. 13. Kuccavēli Rock Inscription (A. S. I., No. 383.),’ Epigraphia Zeylanica 3, pp. 158-161. |
| Details | Stands just to the west of a larger cluster of boulders and caverns on the beach at Kuccavēli (Kuchchaveli) – a small fishing-village in Kaḍḍukkuḷam East, twenty-one miles to the north of Trincomalee. Edward Müller reported the existence of the inscription in his Ancient Inscriptions in Ceylon (published 1883), although he had not visited it himself. |
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