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| Object ID | OB03123 |
| Title | Devanagala Rock |
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| Inscription(s) | IN03148 |
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| Author | Senarath Paranavitana |
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| Description | |
| Material | Rock |
| Object Type | Rock |
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| Details | Rising to a height of 1089 feet (331.9 m) above sea level, Devanagala is a rock about three miles to the south-east of Māvanälla in the Galboḍa Kōraḷē of the Kǟgalla District. Steps are cut into the rock on the north-eastern and south-western slopes, leading to the summit, upon which are the ruins of a massive stone building called Paraṇa Vihāra, an old dāgäba, and an image house of Kandyan style. A twelfth-century inscription (IN03148) is cut into the rock at the bottom of the south-western steps. A later inscription, recording the foundation of a monastery on the site in the sixteenth century, is engraved on the northern side of the rock about seventy yards from the image house. |
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| Date | before 1883 |
| Place | Devanagala |
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| Place | Devanagala |
| Authority | Paranavitana, S. (1928-33). ‘No. 34. Devanagala Rock-Inscription of Parākramabāhu I,’ Epigraphia Zeylanica 3, pp. 312–325. |
| Details | The earlier of the two inscription was first noticed by Edward Müller in his Ancient Inscriptions in Ceylon (1883: 60, 87, 120, no. 135). A full description of the site and its inscriptions was published by H. C. P. Bell in his Report on the Kegalla District of the Province of Sabaragamuwa (1904: 73–76). |
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