OB03105 Kataragama Kirivehera Slab of circa 2nd century A.D.
Kiri Vehera, Kataragama, Sri Lanka
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Sri Lanka epigraphy
Uploaded on November 6, 2017
March 3, 2020
IN03129 Kataragama Kirivehera Slab Inscription of circa 2nd century A.D.
The inscription is engraved on a stone slab, which was discovered among the ruins of the Kirivehera stupa at Kataragama. The discovery was recorded by Edward Mùˆller in his Ancient Inscriptions in Ceylon (1883). Writing in the early 1930s, Senarath Paranavitana recorded that the slab was at that time stood upright some 50 feet (15.2 m) to the south of the main entrance to the stupa. The inscription can be dated on the basis of the palaeography to the first or second century A.D. It records that an elder of the Buddhist Church called Nanda enlarged the caitya (i.e. the Kirivehera stupa) and got the monks at Akujuka to construct flights of steps at the four entrances.
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Sri Lanka epigraphy
Uploaded on November 6, 2017
March 3, 2020