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| Object ID | OB03038 |
| Title | Buddhannehäla Pillar |
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| Inscription(s) | IN03058 |
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| Author | Don Martino de Zilva Wickremasinghe |
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| Description | |
| Material | Stone / unspecified |
| Object Type | Pillar |
| Dimensions: | |
| Width | 22.86 |
| Height | 193.04 |
| Depth | 22.86 |
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| Details | A square pillar inscribed on all four of its sides. |
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| Date | 9 October 1891 |
| Place | Buddhannehäla |
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| Place | Buddhannehäla |
| Authority | Wickremasinghe, Don Martino de Zilva. (1904-12). ‘No. 16. Buddhannehäla Pillar-Inscription,’ Epigraphia Zeylanica 1, pp. 191-200. |
| Details | Discovered by Wickremasinghe on 9 October 1891 at Buddhannehäla (Buddhanagehela) in Kun͂chuṭṭu Kōrale, North-Central Province, about seven miles north of the ruins of Padaviya. Five caves and one dāgaba were found in Buddhannehäla and the present inscription was discovered in Cave No. 3. The pillar was placed upside down to serve as a door-jamb of a Śaiva shrine of about the eleventh or early twelfth century A.D. and was evidently brought there from elsewhere. |
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