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| Object ID | OB03135 |
| Title | Batalagoḍa-Väva Slab |
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| Inscription(s) | IN03163 |
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| Author | Senarath Paranavitana |
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| Description | |
| Material | Stone / unspecified |
| Object Type | Stone slab |
| Dimensions: | |
| Width | 137.16 cm |
| Height | 86.36 cm |
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| Details | A stone slab engraved on one face with an inscription. The slab has been broken into several fragments, some of which are missing. The remaining pieces have been joined and the gaps filled with cement by an overzealous restorer, who – not content with merely putting together what was left of the record – also guessed at what the missing portions of the text may have said and inscribed his suggestions on the cement. Most of this guesswork is, however, unacceptable. |
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| Date | before 1883 |
| Place | Batalagoda Tank |
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| Place | Batalagoda Tank |
| Authority | Paranavitana, S. (1934–41). ‘No. 10. Batalagoḍa-Väva Slab-Inscription,’ Epigraphia Zeylanica 4, pp. 73–82. |
| Details | Discovered near Batalagoḍa-väva, an ancient irrigation reservoir situated about eight miles from Kuruṇǟgala on the road to Dam̆bulla. The slab was apparently known to Edward Müller, who mentions an inscribed slab at the Batalagoda tank in his Ancient Inscriptions in Ceylon (pp. 71–72, no. 166), published in 1883. The reservoir was restored by the Ceylon Government around the turn of the twentieth century and Henry Parker, who was in charge of the restoration work, gave a detailed description of the slab in his Ancient Ceylon (1909: 254, 397–400). He was presumably also responsible for the slab’s repair. |
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