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| Object ID | OB03109 |
| Title | Kevulgama Pillar |
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| Inscription(s) | IN03133 |
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| Author | H. W. Codrington |
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| Description | |
| Material | Stone / unspecified |
| Object Type | Pillar |
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| Details | A stone slab-pillar, the front of which is engraved with eighteen lines of writing; the inscription continues onto the right-hand side of the pillar, where there are a further nine lines under an engraving of a crescent moon. A figure of the sun is engraved on the left-hand side of the pillar. The pillar is broken into a number of pieces but the text of the inscription remains legible. |
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| Place | Kevulgama |
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| Place | Kevulgama |
| Authority | Codrington, H. W. (1928-33). ‘No. 23. The Kevulgama Inscription,’ Epigraphia Zeylanica 3, pp. 230–235. |
| Details | Originally stood in Kandēvatta or Kandē Disānāyaka Mudiyansēlāgē-vatta situated in Pamunētänna, a hamlet of Kevulgama village in Gampaha Kōraḷē West of Uḍa Dumbara in Kandy District. Around the turn of the twentieth century, the pillar was blasted in search of hidden treasure. The upper and main part of the pillar were then removed to the local vihārē and built into the inner doorway of the temple, concealing three lines of the inscription at the top and two at the bottom. It was copied in this partially obscured state by the Archaeological Survey in 1909. H. W. Codrington later convinced the priest at the vihārē to excavate the pillar, revealing the hidden lines of the inscription. The remaining fragment of the pillar was also brought by the priest from its original site to the pansala below the temple, enabling Codrington to provide a complete edition of the inscription in the third volume of Epigraphia Zeylanica (pp. 230–235, no. 23). Luckily, the blasting and resulting fragmentation of the pillar did not cause any irreparable damage to the inscription. |
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