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Potgul Vehera, Polonnaruwa
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| Object ID | OB03082 |
| Title | Poḷonnaruva Pot-Gul Vehera Door Jamb |
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| Inscription(s) | IN03102 |
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| Author | Don Martino de Zilva Wickremasinghe |
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| Description | |
| Material | Stone / unspecified |
| Object Type | Door jamb |
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| Details | Dimensions not reported. A stone door-jamb inscribed with twenty-five lines of writing in Pāli. The letters are engraved between ruled lines 2 inches (5.08 cm) apart. |
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| Date | 1906 |
| Place | Polonnaruwa |
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| Place | Polonnaruwa |
| Authority | Wickremasinghe, Don Martino de Zilva. (1912-27). ‘No. 39. Poḷonnaruva: Pot-Gul Vehera Inscription,’ Epigraphia Zeylanica 2, pp. 238-241. |
| Details | Found “falling and lying perdu” by H. C. P. Bell in 1906 during his excavation of the so-called ‘Pot-Gul Vehera’, which lies about a mile to the south of the ancient city of Poḷonnaruva, not far from the southern end of the Tōpa-väva bund. The ‘Pot-Gul Vehera’ is the central shrine in a group of ruined buildings erected on raised sites within a quadrangular mound once held up by a brick rampart faced with elephant head decorations. The door-jamb was originally part of the shrine’s maṇḍapa, which was a later addition to the main structure. According to the inscription on the door-jamb, the shrine was constructed by king Parakkrama-Bāhu I (r. 1153-86) and rebuilt after his death by his chief-queen Līlāvatī, after which the maṇḍapa was added by his sub-queen Candavatī. |
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