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| Object ID | OB03139 |
| Title | Nāgirikanda Inscribed Rock of Kumāradāsa |
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| Inscription(s) | IN03168 |
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| Author | Senarath Paranavitana |
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| Description | |
| Material | Rock |
| Object Type | Rock |
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| Details | A large rock, the surface of which has been engraved with a sixth-century inscription. |
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| Date | before 1883 |
| Place | Nāgirikanda |
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| Place | Nāgirikanda |
| Authority | Paranavitana, S. (1934–41). ‘No. 14. Nāgirikanda Rock-Inscription of Kumāradāsa,’ Epigraphia Zeylanica 4, pp. 115–128. |
| Details | Situated at Nāgirikanda in the Kadavat Kōraḷē of the North-Century Province. This site was the location of an ancient Buddhist monastery, although most vestiges of this ancient foundation were destroyed or obscured by when a new shrine was constructed on the same spot during the Kandyan period. The inscription on the present rock was first published in a scholarly context by Edward Müller in his Ancient Inscriptions in Ceylon (1883: 51, 77 and 111, no. 97b). Another rock at the same site bears a shorter and slightly earlier inscription. |
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