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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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| Date | |
| Place | Kiribat Vehera |
| 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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