Buddhist ruins at Rajagala, Ampara District, Eastern Province
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| Object ID | OB03151 |
| Title | Rāssahela Inscribed Boulder |
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| Inscription(s) | IN03190 IN03191 IN03192 |
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| Author | Senarath Paranavitana |
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| Description | |
| Material | Rock |
| Object Type | Rock |
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| Details | A large boulder, on the side of which are engraved four inscriptions. IN03190 and IN03191 are engraved close together, the latter being below and to the right of the former. IN03192 is engraved at a distance of around 10 feet (304.8 cm) to the north of them. Only traces survive of the fourth inscription on the boulder. A cave is formed underneath the boulder. |
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| Date | in or before 1935 |
| Place | Rajagala |
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| Place | Rajagala |
| Authority | Paranavitana, S. (1934–41). ‘No. 20. Three Rock-Inscriptions at Rāssahela,’ Epigraphia Zeylanica 4, pp. 169–176. |
| Details | Situated among the remains of an extensive ancient monastery on the rocky hill called Rājagala or Rāssahela in the Vävugam Patty of the Batticaloa District. In 1935, Senarath Paranavitana dispatched W. E. Fernando, the Draughtsman of the Archaeological Department, to make estampages of the inscriptions at Rāssahela, including those on the present boulder. Following this visit, a brief account of the inscriptions was published in the Archaeological Survey of Ceylon Annual Report for 1935 (p. 9). |
| Notes | OB03177 is at the same site. |