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.
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Object ID | OB03059 |
Title | Poḷonnaruva Häṭa-dā-gē Vestibule Wall |
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Inscription(s) | IN03079 |
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Related Objects | OB03058 OB03060 |
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Author | Don Martino de Zilva Wickremasinghe |
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Description | |
Material | Stone / unspecified |
Object Type | wall |
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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. |
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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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