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| Object ID | OB03049 |
| Title | Kukurumahan-Damana Pillar |
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| Inscription(s) | IN03069 |
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| Author | Don Martino de Zilva Wickremasinghe |
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| Description | |
| Material | Stone / unspecified |
| Object Type | Pillar |
| Dimensions: | |
| Width | 27.94 |
| Height | 182.88 |
| Depth | 20.32 |
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| Details | A stone pillar with a rough surface, engraved on all four sides with an inscription in the Sinhalese alphabet of the 10th century A.D. |
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| Found: | |
| Date | 1896 |
| Place | Mallimaḍu |
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| Place | Mallimaḍu |
| Authority | Nicholas, C. W. (1963). ‘Historical Topography of Ancient and Medieval Ceylon,’ Journal of the Ceylon Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society NS 6 (Special Number): 154. |
| Details | Discovered by the Archaeological Commissioner, H. C. P. Bell, in September 1896. The pillar was lying almost embedded in the ground about thirty miles west-north-west of Anurādhapura in what is now the Vilpattu National Park. Bell erroneously identified the find-spot as Kukurumahan Damana (an identification repeated by Wickremasinghe) when it was in fact Mallimaḍu, according to C. W. Nicholas in the Journal of the Ceylon Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society (1963). |
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