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| Object ID | OB03156 |
| Title | Galapāta Vihāra Inscribed Rock |
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| Inscription(s) | IN03197 |
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| Author | Senarath Paranavitana |
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| Description | |
| Material | Rock |
| Object Type | Rock |
| Dimensions: | |
| Width | 358.14 cm |
| Height | 152.4 cm |
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| Details | The dimensions given here describe the inscribed area only. A rock by the side of the flight of steps leading to the shrines and monastic buildings at the Galapāta Vihāra, situated about two miles south-west of the Rest House at Bentoṭa in the Valallāviṭi Kōraḷē. The surface of the rock is engraved with an inscription, the letters of which are incised between parallels lines drawn about 2 inches (5.08 cm) apart. |
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| Found: | |
| Date | before 1883 |
| Place | Bentota |
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| Place | Bentota |
| Authority | Paranavitana, S. (1934–41). ‘No. 25. Galapāta Vihāra Rock-Inscription,’ Epigraphia Zeylanica 4, pp. 196–211. |
| Details | Edward Müller published the first scholarly account of the inscription in his Ancient Inscriptions in Ceylon (1883, p. 71, no. 165). |
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