Shiva Dewalaya No. 1, Polonnaruwa
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| Object ID | OB03069 |
| Title | Poḷonnaruva Śiva-Devālaye Slab |
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| Inscription(s) | IN03089 |
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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 | 157.48 |
| Height | 83.82 |
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| Details | A quadrangular slab, which once formed the top flagstone of a raised seat (āsana). The smoothed upper surface of the slab is engraved around all four sides with five lines of text, written between ruled lines and leaving a blank space of 3 ft 8½ in (113.03 cm) by 1 ft 6 in (45.72 cm) in the centre. The stone is badly worn, rendering a considerable portion of the inscription totally illegible. |
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| Place | Polonnaruwa |
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| Place | Polonnaruwa |
| Authority | Wickremasinghe, Don Martino de Zilva. (1912-27). ‘No. 25. Poḷonnaruva: Śiva-Devālaye Slab-Inscription,’ Epigraphia Zeylanica 2, pp. 146-148. |
| Details | Examined by H. C. P. Bell sometime between 1901 and 1905. The slab was then lying inside a ruined shrine referred to by Bell as Śiva-Devālaya No. 1 and situated a little to the south of the main group of Buddhist ruins on the raised quadrangle near Tōpaväva. |
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