Niśśaṇka-Malla’s Council Chamber, Polonnaruwa.
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| Object ID | OB03065 |
| Title | Poḷonnaruva Kāliṅga Park Gal-Āsana |
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| Inscription(s) | IN03085 |
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| Author | Don Martino de Zilva Wickremasinghe |
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| Description | |
| Material | Stone / unspecified |
| Object Type | seat |
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| Width | 114.3 |
| Height | 114.3 |
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| Details | A stone-seat (āsana) engraved around all four sides of the smoothed upper surface with eight lines of writing, leaving a blank space measuring 12 in (30.48 cm) by 11 in (27.94 cm) in the centre. |
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| Place | Polonnaruwa |
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| Place | Polonnaruwa |
| Authority | Wickremasinghe, Don Martino de Zilva. (1912-27). ‘No. 21. Poḷonnaruva: Kāliṅga Park Gal-Āsana Inscription,’ Epigraphia Zeylanica 2, pp. 130-134. |
| Details | Found outside the ruin of king Niśśaṇka-Malla’s Council Chamber on the promontory overlooking the Tōpa-väva tank in Poḷonnaruva. This ruin is marked no. 1 on inset C 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. The inscription asserts that the stone for this seat was brought for this purpose from Eṇ̆ḍera-galla, which Wickremasinghe identifies with the village Eṇ̆ḍēru-gala (7.915035, 80.679343), situated about five miles west of the famous rock-fortress Sīgiri and half a mile from Inamalawa on the Dambulla-Trincomalee high road. The exact locality of the Kāliṅga Park, mentioned in the inscription and reputedly formed by Niśśaṅka-Malla, is uncertain. However, if the original site of the present ‘lion-seat’ was somewhere near the spot outside the ruin of the ‘Council Chamber’ where it was unearthed, then the Park must have occupied open ground on the eastern side of the structure. |
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