Badulla Pillar Inscription, Badulla
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| Object ID | OB03088 |
| Title | Badulla Pillar |
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| Inscription(s) | IN03108 |
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| Author | Senarath Paranavitana |
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| Description | |
| Material | Stone / unspecified |
| Object Type | Pillar |
| Dimensions: | |
| Width | 22.86 |
| Height | 355.6 |
| Depth | 26.67 |
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| Details | A stone pillar covered on all four sides with an inscription, the letters of which are engraved between ruled lines 2 inches (5.08 cm) apart. The pillar consists of a quadrangular shaft measuring 8 feet 5 inches (256.54 cm) high, surmounted by a capital measuring 1 foot 2 inches (35.56 cm) high. |
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| Date | 1857 |
| Place | Horaborawewa |
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| Place | Badulla |
| Authority | Paranavitana, S. (1928-33). ‘No. 4. Badulla Pillar Inscription (A.S.C. No. 350),’ Epigraphia Zeylanica 3, pp. 71-100. |
| Details | Found in 1857 near the Horaboraväva (Horaborawewa). Situated about three miles to the north-east of Mahiyaṅgaṇa, this tank is the most important of the ancient irrigation works in the province of Ūda. Writing about the Horaborawewa in 1857, John Bailey, then Assistant Government Agent at Badulla, described the pillar as lying in the midst of a forested area, which he speculated was once a range of paddy fields (Sessional Papers 1857, quoted in Herbert White, Manual of the Province of Uva [Colombo: H. C. Cottle, 1893], p. 33). However, when the tank was restored in 1870, the pillar was removed to Badulla and set up near the junction of the Kandy and Baṇḍāravela roads. It stood in this location for over fifty years without attracting any scholarly or antiquarian attention until H. W. Codrington made an eye-copy and transcript of the inscription in 1920. |
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