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| Object ID | OB03107 |
| Title | Kataragama Pillar of Dappula V |
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| Inscription(s) | IN03131 |
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| Author | Senarath Paranavitana |
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| Description | |
| Material | Stone / unspecified |
| Object Type | Pillar |
| Dimensions: | |
| Width | 29.21 |
| Height | 182.88 |
| Depth | 30.48 |
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| Details | A quadrangular stone pillar, now broken into two fragments, the shorter of which measures 1 foot 10 inches (55.88 cm) in length. Before it was broken, the pillar was around six feet (183 cm) in height and was surmounted by a vase-shaped capital. Three sides of the pillar are inscribed and the fourth contains engravings of a monk’s fan, a scythe, a crow and a dog. |
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| Date | before 1916 |
| Place | Kataragama |
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| Place | Kataragama |
| Authority | Paranavitana, S. (1928-33). ‘No. 21. Kataragama Inscriptions – Pillar Inscription of Dappula V,’ Epigraphia Zeylanica 3, pp. 219–225. |
| Details | Originally stood in the forest at Deṭagamuva about a mile to the south of Kataragama. It had fallen down and was broken into two fragments, one of which was removed by the ex-headman of Kataragama to his house to serve as a step. The priest at the Buddhist temple at Kataragama had this fragment removed to the temple in 1916. Later, the lower half of the pillar was brought to the same place and set up in front of the image house. |
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