| Metadata | |
|---|---|
| Object ID | OB03095 |
| Title | Poḷonnaruva Vān-äḷa Fragmentary Pillar-Slab of Niśśaṁka Malla |
| Subtitle | |
| Inscription(s) | IN03117 |
| Child Object | |
| Parent Object | |
| Related Objects | |
| Responsibility | |
| Author | Senarath Paranavitana |
| Metadata recorded by | |
| Authority for metadata | |
| Metadata improved by | |
| Authoriy for improved | |
| Description | |
| Material | Stone / unspecified |
| Object Type | Pillar |
| Dimensions: | |
| Width | 198.12 cm |
| Height | 38.1 cm |
| Depth | 15.24 cm |
| Weight | |
| Details | Dimensions do not include the portion of the object originally buried in the ground. An irregularly shaped fragment of a pillar-slab, the upper part of which is missing. Sixteen complete lines of writing and a further seven partial lines are engraved on the first side of the slab; there may originally have been as many as twenty-seven lines on this side of the slab. A further twenty-six lines are engraved on the back of the slab but, due to the peeling of the stone, the first letters of the first eight lines are missing. The concluding part of the inscription, consisting of four lines, is engraved on one side of the slab, together with a symbol used as a punctuation mark. The other sides are blank. |
| History | |
| Created: | |
| Date | |
| Place | |
| Other ancient history | |
| Found: | |
| Date | |
| Place | Polonnaruwa |
| Other modern history | |
| Latest: | |
| Date | |
| Place | Archaeological Commissioner's Office, Anuradhapura |
| Authority | Paranavitana, S. (1928-33). ‘No. 11. An Inscription of Niśśaṁka Malla found near the Vān-äḷa, Poḷonnaruva (A. S. I. No. 542),’ Epigraphia Zeylanica 3, pp. 149-152. |
| Details | Discovered near the spill (vān-äla) of the Tōpāväva in Poḷonnaruva. The slab was subsequently moved to the Archaeological Office in Anuradhapura, where it was seen by Senarath Paranavitana sometime before 1933; Paranavitana then published an edition of the text in the third volume of Epigraphia Zeylanica. |
| Notes | |