The Hatadage, Polonnaruwa. The vestibule wall inscription can be seen on the right in this photograph.

Detail of the vestibule wall-inscription at the Hatadage, Polonnaruwa.

Metadata
Object ID OB03059
Title Poḷonnaruva Häṭa-dā-gē Vestibule Wall
Subtitle
Inscription(s) IN03079
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Related Objects OB03058 OB03060
Responsibility
Author Don Martino de Zilva Wickremasinghe
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Description
Material Stone / unspecified
Object Type wall
Dimensions:
Width 182.88
Height 101.6
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Details Dimensions are approximate and for the engraved area only. The front wall of the vestibule or pro-naos of the so-called Häṭa-dā-gē at Poḷonnaruva. The outside face of this wall on the right of the entrance is composed of a series of dressed slabs, faintly incised on all four edges with a double border featuring a band of haṁsas (swans) and another of foliate ornament. The quadrangular area inside the border has been smoothed, ruled and engraved with seventeen lines of writing.
History
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Date 1885
Place Polonnaruwa
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Place Polonnaruwa
Authority Wickremasinghe, Don Martino de Zilva. (1912-27). ‘No. 15. Poḷonnaruva: Häṭa-dā-gē Vestibule Wall-Inscription,’ Epigraphia Zeylanica 2, pp. 91-96.
Details Discovered by S. M. Burrows in 1885 on the front wall of the vestibule or pro-naos of the so-called Häṭa-dā-gē, ‘the Shrine of Sixty Relics’, at Poḷonnaruva. Burrows also discovered two another inscription inside the shrine and one in the adjoining portico (IN03078). 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.
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