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| Object ID | OB03138 |
| Title | Anurādhapura Slab of Khudda-Pārinda |
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| Inscription(s) | IN03167 |
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| Author | Senarath Paranavitana |
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| Description | |
| Material | Stone / unspecified |
| Object Type | Stone slab |
| Dimensions: | |
| Width | 29.21 cm |
| Height | 157.48 cm |
| Depth | 12.7 cm |
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| Details | A stone slab inscribed not only on its face but also on one of its sides and on its back, the surface of which has not been dressed. The lines of writing run vertically. The dimensions given here exclude the base of the slab, which was buried in the ground. |
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| Found: | |
| Date | before 1911–12 |
| Place | Abhayagiri Vihāra |
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| Place | Archaeological Museum, Anuradhapura |
| Authority | Paranavitana, S. (1934–41). ‘No. 13. Anurādhapura Slab-Inscription of Khudda-Pārinda,’ Epigraphia Zeylanica 4, pp. 111–115. |
| Details | The slab is now preserved in the Archaeological Museum at Anurādhapura. Senarath Paranavitana recorded that it was said to have been discovered in the area of the Abhayagiri Vihāra in Anurādhapura. He also noted that it had been included in the list of lithic inscriptions from Nuvara-kalāviya exhibited at Anurādhapura in the Archaeological Survey of Ceylon Annual Report for 1911–12 (p. 73, no. 16). He was unable to find any other references to the slab giving further details about its provenance. The inscription on the slab registers some donations made to a Buddhist monastery. The name of the monastery is not preserved but it appears to have ended in la, suggesting that it was not the Abhayagiri Vihara, in which case we may perhaps assume that the slab was originally situated elsewhere and brought to this vihara at a later date, possibly for some architectural purpose. |
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