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The Anandacandra Stone Inscription

The Anandacandra Stone Inscription

Myanmar - Department of Archaeology and National Museum. Nay Pyi Taw, Myanmar

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The nominated documentary heritage is “Anandacandra Stone Inscription”, the important evidence of early history of Rakhine, especially from late B.C. to eight century A.D. Significance of it is that there were no contemporary Indian inscriptions, which mentioned the reigning years of kings and queens in Sanskrit and it is also the rare one even in the world. Significance also found is that the three different faces are inscribed in Sanskrit with three different North Indian scripts belonging to three different eras which are separated from each other by a lapse of 200 years. So, this inscription deserves Memory of World Register.

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2018

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