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| Object ID | OB03108 |
| Title | Anuradhapura 'Buddhist Railing' Fragmentary Slab of Mahinda IV |
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| Inscription(s) | IN03132 |
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| Responsibility | |
| Author | Senarath Paranavitana |
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| Description | |
| Material | Stone / unspecified |
| Object Type | Stone slab |
| Dimensions: | |
| Width | 58.42 cm |
| Height | 63.5 cm |
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| Details | The upper part of a broken stone slab, featuring nineteen lines of writings, plus a few letters from the end of a twentieth line. The top corners are damaged. The lower part of the slab, featuring the conclusion of the inscription, is missing. |
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| Found: | |
| Date | in or before 1892 |
| Place | Jētavanārāma |
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| Place | Archaeological Commissioner's Office, Anuradhapura |
| Authority | Paranavitana, S. (1928-33). ‘No. 22. A Fragmentary Slab-Inscription Found at the Buddhist Railing near the Eastern Dāgäba, Anurādhapura (A. S. I. No. 119),’ Epigraphia Zeylanica 3, pp. 226–229. |
| Details | Found at the building called ‘the Buddhist Railing’ near the Eastern (Jetavana) dāgäba at Anurādhapura and recorded in the Annual Report of the Archaeological Survey of Ceylon for 1892 (p. 9, no. 4). It was removed to the premises of the Archaeological Survey and was still there in the early 1930s when Senarath Paranavitana published his edition and translation of the inscription in the third volume of Epigraphia Zeylanica. |
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