Magul Maha Viharaya, Lahugala
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| Object ID | OB03149 |
| Title | Magul-maha-vihāra Slab of Vihāra-mahā-devī |
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| Inscription(s) | IN03188 |
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| Author | Senarath Paranavitana |
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| Description | |
| Material | Stone / unspecified |
| Object Type | Stone slab |
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| Width | 71.12 cm |
| Height | 201.93 cm |
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| Details | A stone slab engraved on one side with a palimpsest of inscriptions, consisting a lengthy tenth-century inscription which has been largely obliterated by a later fourteenth-century inscription. Only thirteen lines of the tenth-century inscription remain visible at the end of the fourteenth-century inscription. |
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| Place | Magul Maha Viharaya |
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| Place | Magul Maha Viharaya |
| Authority | Paranavitana, S. (1934–41). ‘No. 19. Two Inscriptions of Vihāra-Mahā-Devī from Magul-Maha-Vihāra,’ Epigraphia Zeylanica 4, pp. 161–169. |
| Details | Found to the left of the flight of steps at the entrance to a ruined structure on the site of an ancient monastery situated in the Pānama Pattu of the Batticaloa District, about a mile to the south of the eighth mile-stone on the road from Potuvil to Vällavāya. The ancient name of this monastery was Rūṇu-maha-vehera; it is now known as Magul-maha-vihāra. The structure where this slab was found is marked ‘Building A’ on the plan of the ruins published in the Ceylon Journal of Science, Section G, vol. ii, plate XLIII. |
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