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| Object ID | OB03089 |
| Title | Mannar Kacceri Pillar |
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| Inscription(s) | IN03109 |
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| Responsibility | |
| Author | Senarath Paranavitana |
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| Description | |
| Material | Stone / sandstone |
| Object Type | Pillar |
| Dimensions: | |
| Width | 19.05 |
| Height | 167.64 |
| Depth | 20.32 |
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| Details | A stone pillar covered on all four sides with an inscription. A monk’s fan (vaṭahapata) is engraved beneath the inscription on the fourth side of the pillar. The pillar consists of a quadrangular shaft surmounted by a vase-shaped capital. |
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| Found: | |
| Date | before 1907 |
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| Other modern history | possibly found at Māntai |
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| Place | Mannar |
| Authority | Paranavitana, S. (1928-33). ‘No. 5. Mannar Kacceri Pillar Inscription (A.S.C. No. 355),’ Epigraphia Zeylanica 3, pp. 100-113. |
| Details | Reported in the early twentieth century to be standing in a corner of a room in the Kacceri (Government Agent’s Office) at Mannar. In the Archaeological Survey of Ceylon Annual Report for 1907 (p. 27), John Still saw the pillar in the Kacceri and was told that it had been found at Māntai. However, a note written by the Kacceri Mudaliyar in 1913 stated that “this pillar was found in the bund of Giant’s Tank”. In Epigraphia Zeylanica 3 (1928–33, p. 100), S. Paranavitana recorded that the pillar is “said to have been brought from Māntai or Tirukkētīśvaram”. |
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