Srilanka, April 19 -- Sri Lanka's Trilingual Inscription (Tribhasha Sellipiya) and a collection of documents connected with the Panadura Vadaya (The Great Debate of Panadura) in 1873 have been inscribed in the UNESCO Memory of the World Register, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) announced on Thursday.
The Trilingual Inscription, a submission made jointly by China and Sri Lanka, is a stone tablet with Chinese, Persian and Tamil inscriptions, praising Buddha, God Vishnu and Allah.
Discovered in 1911 in Sri Lanka by a British engineer, it is now preserved in the Colombo National Museum, with a replica exhibited in the Galle National Museum. Dated February 15, 1409, the tablet was installed by the ...