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The Quadrangle (Dalada Maluwa), Polonnaruwa, Sri Lanka
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| Object ID | OB03063 |
| Title | Poḷonnaruva Kāliṅga Forest Gal-āsana |
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| Inscription(s) | IN03083 |
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| Author | Don Martino de Zilva Wickremasinghe |
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| Description | |
| Material | Stone / granite |
| Object Type | seat |
| Dimensions: | |
| Width | 109.22 |
| Height | 91.44 |
| Depth | 109.22 |
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| Details | A granite seat or āsana with moulded sides. The smoothed upper surface of the stone is inscribed around all four sides with four lines of writing, leaving a blank space of 22 inches (55.88 cm) square in the centre. |
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| Place | Polonnaruwa |
| Authority | Wickremasinghe, Don Martino de Zilva. (1912-27). ‘No. 19. Poḷonnaruva: Kāliṅga Forest Gal-āsana Inscription,’ Epigraphia Zeylanica 2, pp. 125-127. |
| Details | In 1927, Wickremasinghe reported that the seat stood a few feet off the south-east corner of the site of a Piḷima-gē (‘image-house’) in the group of ruins on the Tōpa-väva quadrangle (the Dalada Maluwa) in Polonnaruwa. He was unable to say whether the inscription stood in its original place in the Kāliṅga-vana (‘Kāliṅga-forest’) and whether this locality was identical with the Kāliṅgodyāna (‘Kāliṅga-park’), formed by Niśśaṅka-Malla. |
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