The Inner Shrine at the Hatadage, Polonnaruwa.
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| Object ID | OB03060 |
| Title | Poḷonnaruva Häṭa-dā-gē Inside Wall (fragments) |
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| Inscription(s) | IN03080 |
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| Related Objects | OB03058 OB03059 |
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| Author | Don Martino de Zilva Wickremasinghe |
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| Description | |
| Material | Stone / unspecified |
| Object Type | Stone slab |
| Dimensions: | |
| Width | 124.46 |
| Height | 45.72 |
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| Details | Dimensions are for the engraved area only. A series of fragments of dressed slabs formerly built into an inside wall of the so-called Häṭa-dā-gē at Poḷonnaruva. The slabs formed a smooth surface, which was ruled and engraved with eight 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. 16. Poḷonnaruva: Häṭa-dā-gē Inside Wall-Inscription,’ Epigraphia Zeylanica 2, pp. 96-98. |
| Details | Discovered by S. M. Burrows in 1885 in a fragmentary state in the Inner Shrine of the so-called Häṭa-dā-gē, ‘the Shrine of Sixty Relics’, at Poḷonnaruva. Burrows also discovered two another inscription the vestibule of the shrine (IN03079) 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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