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Title: Lankātilaka ("Jewel of Lanka"): Image house: Guardstone inscription
Creator: de Silva, Preethi
Date Created and/or Issued: 2016
Publication Information: Claremont Colleges Library
Contributing Institution: Claremont Colleges Library
Collection: Ancient Cultural Sites and Royal Residences
Rights Information: This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License - http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
Description: The text is in Medieval Sinhala and the language is Pali. "Contents: Inscription mentions that King Vijayabāhu IV (1270-1272) renovated the Lankatilaka hundred years after it was built by the great King Parākramabāhu."
Type: image
Format: image/jp2
Identifier: acs01347.jpg
http://ccdl.claremont.edu/cdm/ref/collection/p15831coll15/id/1480
Subject: Signs and signboards
Time Period: 12th century CE
Place: Lankātilaka Pilimagē
Polonnaruva
Sri Lanka
Relation: Ancient Buddhist Sites and Royal Residences in Sri Lanka - https://ccdl.claremont.edu/digital/collection/p15831coll15

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