Entrance to the Hatadage, Polonnaruwa. The slab inscription can be seen on the right in this photograph.
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| Object ID | OB03058 |
| Title | Poḷonnaruva Häṭa-dā-gē Portico Slabs |
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| Inscription(s) | IN03078 |
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| Related Objects | OB03059 OB03060 |
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| Author | Don Martino de Zilva Wickremasinghe |
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| Description | |
| Material | Stone / unspecified |
| Object Type | Stone slab |
| Dimensions: | |
| Width | 111.76 |
| Height | 160.02 |
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| Details | Dimensions are for the engraved area only. Two slabs fitted together edgeways, one above the other, on the right side of the passage through the portico of the so-called Häṭa-dā-gē, ‘the Shrine of Sixty Relics’, at Poḷonnaruva. The surface of the slabs have been smoothed, ruled and inscribed with twenty-three lines of writing. |
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| Date | 1885 |
| Place | Polonnaruwa |
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| Place | Polonnaruwa |
| Authority | Wickremasinghe, Don Martino de Zilva. (1912-27). ‘No. 14. Poḷonnaruva: Häṭa-dā-gē Portico Slab-Inscription,’ Epigraphia Zeylanica 2, pp. 84-90. |
| Details | Discovered by S. M. Burrows in 1885 on the portico of the so-called Häṭa-dā-gē, ‘the Shrine of Sixty Relics’, at Polonnaruwa. Burrows also discovered two further inscription in the shrine itself. The Häṭa-dā-gē is the ruined vihāra marked No. 4 on inset B of the plans of the Poḷonnaruva ruins given in the Archaeological Commissioner’s Annual Reports and reprinted in Epigraphia Zeylanica 2 (1912-27): 84-85. The Archaeological Commissioner, H. C. P. Bell, described the portico as follows: “A portico, placed in the middle of [the vihara’s] front, projected 4ft. 2in. from the wall line outside and half as much at the back. The few steps at the entrance were flanked by two pillars and a pair of solid shapely vases in stone, 2ft. 6in. high, and in diameter (now displaced from their square pedestals), with lotus bosses on top. A clear passage, 8ft. 6in. in length by 5ft. 6in. broad, gave admittance between the lofty inner walls of the portico. The four pillars at entrance and exit aided its roofing” [quoted in Epigraphia Zeylanica 2 (1912-27): 84]. |
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