Nainativu Nagapooshani Amman Temple, Sri Lanka
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| Object ID | OB03182 |
| Title | Nainativu Inscribed Slab of Parakramabahu I |
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| Inscription(s) | IN03229 |
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| Author | Karthigesu Indrapala |
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| Description | |
| Material | Stone / unspecified |
| Object Type | Stone slab |
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| Details | A stone slab engraved on both sides with a twelfth-century inscription, now in a fragmentary and damaged condition. The lower portion of the slab has been broken off and built into the wall of the shrine. Furthermore, workmen have sharpened their tools on the obverse of the slab, rendering illegible the text on that side. Only the writing on the reverse of the slab has survived. |
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| Date | before 1926 |
| Place | Nākapūṣaṇi-Ammaṉ Temple |
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| Place | Nākapūṣaṇi-Ammaṉ Temple |
| Authority | Indrapala, Karthigesu. (1963). ‘The Nainativu Tamil inscription of Parakramabahu I,’ University of Ceylon Review 21, no. 1, pp. 63–70. http://dlib.pdn.ac.lk/handle/123456789/1546 |
| Details | Found lying opposite the entrance to the famous Nākapūṣaṇi-Ammaṉ Temple on the sacred island of Naiṉātīvu in the Jaffna district. Mudaliyar Rasanayagam made an eye-copy of the inscription and published the text as a footnote in his book Ancient Jaffna (1926: 208–209), although his reading was incomplete and contain several errors. Subsequently, the Archaeological Department prepared an estampage of the record in 1949, which Karthigesu Indrapala used to produce a more accurate text and translation in the University of Ceylon Review, 21, no. 1 (1963), pp. 63–70. |
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