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| Object ID | OB03180 |
| Title | Panduwasnuwara Slab of Niśśaṅka Malla |
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| Inscription(s) | IN03227 |
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| Author | K. Kanapathi Pillai |
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| Description | |
| Material | Stone / unspecified |
| Object Type | Stone slab |
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| Details | A stone slab engraved with a twelfth-century Tamil inscription. |
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| Date | 1951 |
| Place | Panduwasnuwara |
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| Place | Panduwasnuwara |
| Authority | Pillai, K. Kanapathi. (1960). ‘A Tamil inscription from Panduwasnuwara,’ University of Ceylon Review 18, no. 3&4, pp. 157–162. http://dlib.pdn.ac.lk/handle/123456789/1375 |
| Details | Discovered by the Archaeological Commissioner, Senarath Paranavitana, in 1951 at an ancient site to the south of the Citadel in Paṇḍuvasnuvara, otherwise called Parākramapura, which was the capital of the Principality of Dakkhiṇa-deśa for a time during the medieval period. Paṇḍuvasnuvara is situated in the Girātalana Korale of the Devamädi Hatpattu in the Kurunǟgala District, some twenty-two miles from Chilaw on the Wariyapola road. |
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