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Object ID OB03146
Title Tammannǟgala Moonstone
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Inscription(s) IN03185
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Author Senarath Paranavitana
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Details A moonstone with an inscription around its edge. The stone is placed at the bottom of a flight of steps leading to the dāgäba at an old vihara called Tammannǟgala in the Nǟgampaha Kōraḷē of the Anurādhapura District.
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Place Tammannǟgala
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Authority Paranavitana, S. (1934–41). ‘No. 17. Seven Sinhalese Inscriptions of the Seventh and Eighth Centuries,’ Epigraphia Zeylanica 4, pp. 148–149, no. 17, VI.
Details First noticed for scholarship by H. C. P. Bell in the Archaeological Survey of Ceylon Annual Report for 1895 (p. 7, no. 14).
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