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| Object ID | OB03103 |
| Title | Gäraṇ̆ḍigala Cave No. 3 |
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| Inscription(s) | IN03127 |
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| Author | Senarath Paranavitana |
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| Description | |
| Material | Rock |
| Object Type | Cave |
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| Details | A cave in the rocky hills situated about a quarter of a mile to the north of the village of Damunumulla in Central Province. Senarath Paranavitana describes three caves in these hills: No. 1, which lies nearest to the village and contains three stone beds; No. 2, which is a little over a quarter of a mile to the north of the first cave and contains a further seven beds; and No. 3 – the present cave – which lies further north. An eighth-century Sinhalese inscription is engraved on two rock panels near this cave. Another nearby rock is cut with a drip-line at a height of about ten or twelve feet. The hills take their name – Gäraṇ̆ḍigala (Garandigala) – from the snake-like appearance of this drip-line, gäraṇ̆ḍiyā being the Sinhalese name for the oriental ratsnake (pytas mucosa). |
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| Date | before 1883 |
| Place | Garandigala |
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| Place | Garandigala |
| Authority | Paranavitana, S. (1928-33). ‘No. 19. Gäraṇ̆ḍigala Rock Inscription of Kassapa III,’ Epigraphia Zeylanica 3, pp. 195–199. |
| Details | The inscriptions at the site were known to Edward Müller in 1883 (see his Ancient Inscriptions in Ceylon, p. 52, no. 104). |
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