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| Object ID | OB03117 |
| Title | Anurādhapura Pillar of Bhuvanaikabāhu Mahapā |
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| Inscription(s) | IN03142 |
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| Responsibility | |
| Author | Senarath Paranavitana |
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| Description | |
| Material | Stone / unspecified |
| Object Type | Pillar |
| Dimensions: | |
| Width | 19.05 cm |
| Height | 135.89 cm |
| Depth | 19.3675 cm |
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| Details | A stone pillar engraved on two sides with an inscription. The lower portion of the pillar has been broken off and, at its top, there is a mortise hole to which a wooden capital was probably fitted. The pillar is an irregular quadrangle with two sides measuring 7½ inches (19.05 cm), one side measuring 7⅝ inches (19.3675 cm) and the final side measuring 7¼ inches (18.415 cm). |
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| Found: | |
| Date | sometime between 1906 and 1912 |
| Place | Anuradhapura |
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| Place | Anuradhapura Museum |
| Authority | Paranavitana, S. (1928-33). ‘No. 30. A Pillar Inscription of Bhuvanaikabāhu Mahapā from Anurādhapura,’ Epigraphia Zeylanica 3, pp. 286–288. |
| Details | Found, sometime between 1906 and 1912, in a chena near the Malvatu Oya, to the east of the fifth milestone on the Outer Circular Road in Anurādhapura. It was recorded as No. 2 in the list of inscriptions forming Appendix F of the Annual Report of the Archaeological Survey of Ceylon for 1911–12 and subsequently moved to the Anurādhapura Museum. The pillar was evidently taken from the ruins of an earlier building. |
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