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Object ID OB03033
Title Kiribat Vehera Pillar
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Inscription(s) IN03053
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Author Don Martino de Zilva Wickremasinghe
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Description
Material Stone / unspecified
Object Type Pillar
Dimensions:
Width 25.4
Height 152.4
Depth 25.4
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Details A quadrangular pillar of stone inscribed from top to bottom on all four sides in Sinhalese alphabet from the 10th century A.D.
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Date 1891
Place Kiribat Vehera
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Authority Wickremasinghe, Don Martino de Zilva. (1904-12). ‘No. 11. Kiribat-Vehera Pillar-Inscription,’ Epigraphia Zeylanica 1, pp. 153-162.
Details Discovered by H. C. P. Bell in 1891 in the jungle some 200 yards north-east of the ruined dāgaba known as Kiribat Vehera (8°23'57"N, 80°24'0"E), about three and a half miles to the north of the town of Anurādhapura. A giant fallen Buddha figure and a piḷima-gē (image-house) were also found in the surroundings.
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