Nuvarakanda 913

  • Language: Simhal. Prakrit
  • Date: -225-50
  • Indoskript editor: kh
  • Dynasty:
  • ID: 459
  • Place of origin: Nuvarakanda (80° 16' long., 7° 38' lat.)
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Material: Stein

Scanvorlage:

Paranavitana, S.: Inscriptions of Ceylon

Vol. I: containing Cave Inscriptions from 3rd century B.C. to 1st century A.C. and other Inscriptions in the early Brāhmī Script. [o.O.], 1970; (Archaeological Survey of Ceylon)

Section A: Inscriptions in early Brāhmī Script, S. 1 ff.

Die meisten der Inschriften befinden sich unter oder leicht oberhalb der aus dem Stein gehauenen Wasserrinnen an den buddhistischen Felshöhlen.

Nuvarakanda

No. 913:

Zeile 2 steht über Zeile 1:

(1) Gami[ṇi]- [Abaya-Pi]tamaharajhaha jhamata-Kaṇa[ti]śaha (leṇe)

(2) agata-[a]nagata-catu-diśa-śagaśa dine

Übersetzung: "The cave of Kaṇha Tissa , the son-in-law of the great king Piti(rāja), is given to the Saṅgha of the four directions, present and absent"

vorläufige Datierung: letztes Viertel 3. Jhd. v. Ch. - Mitte 1. Jhd. n. Ch. (Ed.: S. xvii)

Herkunft: "Nuvarakanda in Dëvamädda Kðrale of Dëvamädi Hatpattu in the Kuruṇägala District; two and a half miles to the north-west of the 6th mile-post on the road from Vāiyapola to Hiripiṭiya." (Ed. p. viii)

weitere Literatur: CJSG , II, p. 126f, Nos. 529-537.

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