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| Object ID | OB03054 |
| Title | Poḷonnaruva Raja-Māḷigāva Pillar of Mahinda IV |
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| Inscription(s) | IN03074 |
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| Responsibility | |
| Author | Don Martino de Zilva Wickremasinghe |
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| Description | |
| Material | Stone / unspecified |
| Object Type | Pillar |
| Dimensions: | |
| Width | 24.13 |
| Height | 182.88 |
| Depth | 20.32 |
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| Details | A quadrangular stone pillar engraved on three sides with an inscription in the Sinhalese alphabet of the early eleventh century A.D. The lines of text are inscribed within parallels lines. |
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| Found: | |
| Date | in or before 1905 |
| Place | Polonnaruwa |
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| Date | 1912 |
| Place | Archaeological Commissioner’s Office, Tōpa-väva |
| Authority | Wickremasinghe, Don Martino de Zilva. (1912-27). ‘No. 10. Poḷonnaruva: Raja-Māḷigāva Pillar Inscription of Mahinda IV,’ Epigraphia Zeylanica 2, pp. 49-57. |
| Details | Discovered in or before 1905 at the site of the so-called Raja-māḷigāva (royal palace) in the Citadel of Poḷonnaruva. In 1912, Wickremasinghe reported its location as the premises of the Archaeological Commissioner at Tōpa-väva. |
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