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| Object ID | OB03137 |
| Title | Koṭṭangē Inscribed Rock 2 |
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| Inscription(s) | IN03165 |
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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 an inscription engraved on its surface. The rock was not dressed before the inscription was executed. As a result, the lines are of unequal length, the engraver having avoided several uneven areas on the right-hand side of the rock. The letters are engraved between parallel lines which are spaced on average 3½ inches (8.89 cm) apart. |
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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 the village of Koṭṭangē in the Mādurē Kōraḷē of the Vǟuḍavili Hatpattu in the Kuruṇǟgala District. When Senarath Paranavitana visited the site in 1931, the rock lay just within the boundaries of a coconut plantation called the Ōgoḍapola Estate in the Delviṭa Group. It was at that time completely buried under about two feet of earth, soil having washed down the hillside and covered the rock. However, a local villager who had seen the rock some years previously alerted Paranavitana to its existence. Paranavitana was then able to remove the earth and reveal the inscription, which he copied for the Archaeological Department. 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 IN03164, which is engraved on another rock in the same vicinity (OB03136). |
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