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| Object ID | OB03051 |
| Title | Ayitigeväva Pillar |
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| Inscription(s) | IN03071 |
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| Author | Don Martino de Zilva Wickremasinghe |
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| Description | |
| Material | Stone / unspecified |
| Object Type | Pillar |
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| Details | Dimensions not reported. A stone pillar engraved on four sides with Buddhist emblems and an inscription in the Sinhalese alphabet of the latter half of the 10th century A.D. |
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| Date | in or before 1892 |
| Place | Ayitigeväva |
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| Place | Ayitigeväva |
| Authority | Wickremasinghe, Don Martino de Zilva. (1912-27). ‘No. 7. Ayitigeväva Pillar-Inscription,’ Epigraphia Zeylanica 2, pp. 34-38. |
| Details | Examined in 1892 by Bell and Wickremasinghe at Ayitigeväva, a small hamlet in Kum̆bukväva Tulāna in the Kuñcuṭṭu Kōrole, about twenty-five miles north-north-east of Anurādhapura. According to C. W. Nicholas in the Journal of the Ceylon Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society (1963), Ayitigeväva is two miles south of 2 miles south-east of Käbiṭṭigolläva (Kebithigollewa at 8.641485, 80.671526 in Google Maps). |
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