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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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| Description | |
| Material | Stone / unspecified |
| Object Type | moonstone |
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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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| Date | 1895 |
| Place | Tammannǟgala |
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| Place | Tammannǟgala |
| 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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