Metadata |
Object ID |
OB03033 |
Title |
Kiribat Vehera Pillar |
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Inscription(s) |
IN03053
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Responsibility |
Author |
Don Martino de Zilva Wickremasinghe |
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Description |
Material |
Stone / unspecified |
Object Type |
Pillar |
Dimensions: |
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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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History |
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Found: |
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Date |
1891 |
Place |
Kiribat Vehera |
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Latest: |
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Date |
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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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