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| Object ID | OB03039 |
| Title | Moragoḍa Pillar of Kassapa IV |
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| Inscription(s) | IN03059 |
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| Responsibility | |
| Author | Don Martino de Zilva Wickremasinghe |
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| Description | |
| Material | Stone / unspecified |
| Object Type | Pillar |
| Dimensions: | |
| Width | 33.02 |
| Height | 187.96 |
| Depth | 33.02 |
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| Details | A stone pillar with a vase-shaped or kalasa capital and a square shaft, which is inscribed on all four sides. |
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| Found: | |
| Date | in or before 1886 |
| Place | Padaviya |
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| Date | |
| Place | Padaviya |
| Authority | Wickremasinghe, Don Martino de Zilva. (1904-12). ‘No. 17. Moragoḍa Pillar-Inscription of Kassapa IV,’ Epigraphia Zeylanica 1, pp. 200-207. |
| Details | Discovered sometime in or before 1886 by H. Parker in the forest below the embankment of the Padaviya Tank “at the site of an ancient town which is now called Moragoḍa”. It was still there, “lying prone among the ruins”, when Bell and Wickremasinghe visited the spot in October 1891. Padaviya is situated in the north-eastern corner of the North-Central Province, about forty miles from Anuradhapura. |
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