The Quadrangle (Dalada Maluwa), Polonnaruwa, Sri Lanka

 

Detail of the Kalā-Krīḍā-Vinoda-Gal-Āsana at the Quadrangle (Dalada Maluwa), Polonnaruwa, Sri Lanka

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Object ID OB03064
Title Poḷonnaruva Kalā-Krīḍā-Vinoda-Gal-Āsana
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Inscription(s) IN03084
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Author Don Martino de Zilva Wickremasinghe
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Material Stone / unspecified
Object Type seat
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Width 190.5
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Details An oblong stone-seat (āsana) engraved around all four sides of the smoothed upper surface with four lines of writing, leaving a blank space measuring 4 ft 6 in (137.16 cm) by 1 ft 9 in (53.34 cm) in the centre.
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Place Polonnaruwa
Authority Wickremasinghe, Don Martino de Zilva. (1912-27). ‘No. 20. Poḷonnaruva: Kalā-Krīḍā-Vinoda-Gal-Āsana Inscription,’ Epigraphia Zeylanica 2, pp. 128-130.
Details Stands near the north-east corner of the Piḷimagē (‘image-house’) in the group of ruins on the Tōpa-väva quadrangle (the Dalada Maluwa) in Polonnaruwa. This site is marked no. 11 on inset B of the plans of the Polonnaruwa ruins given in the Archaeological Commissioner’s Annual Reports and reprinted in Epigraphia Zeylanica 2 (1912-27): 84-85. According to H. C. P. Bell, the seat was brought from the shrine of Thūpārāma (7.947135, 81.000877), where it had been improperly utilised as a flower altar. It is therefore not clear where exactly the seat originally stood.
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