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| Object ID | OB03168 |
| Title | Nilagama Inscribed Rock of Daḷa Mugalan |
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| Inscription(s) | IN03210 |
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| Author | Senarath Paranavitana |
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| Description | |
| Material | Rock |
| Object Type | Rock |
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| Details | A rock at the northern end of the village reservoir at Nilagama, behind a huge boulder which contains an ancient Buddhist cave-temple. The rock is engraved with a sixth century inscription consisting of seven lines. The rock was not smoothed prior to the inscription being engraved and there is no uniformity in the length and direction of the lines or in the size of the letters. |
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| Date | 1935 |
| Place | Nilagama |
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| Place | Nilagama |
| Authority | Paranavitana, S. (1934–41). ‘No. 37. Nilagama Rock-Inscription of Daḷa Mugalan,’ Epigraphia Zeylanica 4, pp. 285–296. |
| Details | Edward Müller mentions the Nilagama Vihāra in his Ancient Inscription in Ceylon (1883: 46–47, no. 79) and discusses certain inscriptions at the site but he makes no explicit reference to the present inscribed rock and it is not clear whether he was aware of its existence. The first definite record of this rock and its inscription dates from 1935, when the text was copied by an overseer working on behalf of Senarath Paranavitana. |
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