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OB03139 |
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Nāgirikanda Inscribed Rock of Kumāradāsa |
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IN03168
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Senarath Paranavitana |
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Description |
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Rock |
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Rock |
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A large rock, the surface of which has been engraved with a sixth-century inscription.
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before 1883 |
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Nāgirikanda |
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Nāgirikanda |
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Paranavitana, S. (1934–41). ‘No. 14. Nāgirikanda Rock-Inscription of Kumāradāsa,’ Epigraphia Zeylanica 4, pp. 115–128. |
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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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