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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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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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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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