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| Object ID | OB03161 |
| Title | Mihintaḷē Trikāyastava Inscribed Rock |
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| Inscription(s) | IN03202 |
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| Author | Senarath Paranavitana |
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| Description | |
| Material | Rock |
| Object Type | Rock |
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| Details | A large rock engraved on its perpendicular surface with a Sanskrit inscription. The epigraph has been seriously damaged by the action of the weather and possibly also by the destructive attentions of vandals, to the extent that large portions of the writing are now totally effaced and many letters are not very clear. |
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| Date | before 1883 |
| Place | Mihintale |
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| Place | Mihintale |
| Authority | Paranavitana, S. (1934–41). ‘No. 31. The Trikāyastava in an Inscription at Mihintaḷē,’ Epigraphia Zeylanica 4, pp. 242–246. |
| Details | The rock is situated about 40 or 50 yards (35 or 45 m) to the north-east of the Ambastala Dāgäba at Mihintaḷē. Edward Müller made a passing reference to the rock’s inscription in his Ancient Inscriptions in Ceylon (1883: 52). |
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