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| Object ID | OB03136 |
| Title | Koṭṭangē Inscribed Rock 1 |
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| Inscription(s) | IN03164 |
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| Author | Senarath Paranavitana |
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| Description | |
| Material | Rock |
| Object Type | Rock |
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| Details | A large flat rock with a natural crevice across the middle of its surface. An inscription is engraved in two panels on the top of the rock, one on either side of the crevice. The panel on the left-hand side measures 3 feet 9½ inches (115.57 cm) by 2 feet ½ inch (62.23 cm) and is enclosed in a rectangular frame. Parallel horizontal lines, drawn at distances varying from 3½ to 2½ inches (8.89 to 6.35 cm) from one another, divide this area into eight unequal spaces in which the letters are engraved. Figures of the sun and the crescent moon are engraved above this panel and the figure of a crow is engraved to the left of it, facing the inscription. The right-hand panel measure 4 feet ½ inch (123.19 cm) by 1 foot 3 inches (38.1 cm) and is also enclosed in a rectangular linear framing. It is divided into five spaces by horizontal parallel lines at a distance varying from 3¼ to 2¾ inches (8.255 to 6.985 cm) from one another. The figure of a dog is engraved to the right of this panel, facing the inscription. |
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| Date | possibly as early as 1890, definitely in 1931 |
| Place | Kottange |
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| Place | Kottange |
| Authority | Paranavitana, S. (1934–41). ‘No. 11. Two Rock-Inscriptions at Koṭṭangē,’ Epigraphia Zeylanica 4, pp. 82–90. |
| Details | Situated in an area of land known as Puvak-aram̆ba or Koṭṭangē-aram̆ba in the village of Koṭṭangē in the Mādurē Kōraḷē of the Vǟuḍavili Hatpattu in the Kuruṇǟgala District. The inscription on the rock was first copied for scholarship by the Archaeological Department in 1931. The existence of an inscription at this place had previously been mentioned in the Return of the Architectural and Archaeological and other Antiquities existing in Ceylon, which was published by the Ceylon Government in 1890, but it is not clear whether the inscription in question was the present record or IN03165, which is engraved on another rock in the same vicinity (OB03137). |
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