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| Object ID | OB03118 |
| Title | Kivulekada Pillar of Sena I |
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| Inscription(s) | IN03143 |
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| Responsibility | |
| Author | Senarath Paranavitana |
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| Description | |
| Material | Stone / unspecified |
| Object Type | Pillar |
| Dimensions: | |
| Width | 35.56 cm |
| Height | 91.44 cm |
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| Details | Dimensions are for the inscribed area only. A rough stone pillar engraved with an inscription. At the top of the pillar, above the inscription, are engraved auspicious symbols: a flower vase (pūrṇṇa-ghaṭa), a crescent, a lotus, a trisula, a svastika and three others which are no longer recognisable. |
| History | |
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| Found: | |
| Date | 1892 |
| Place | Kivulekada |
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| Latest: | |
| Date | 1928 |
| Place | Kivulekada |
| Authority | Paranavitana, S. (1928-33). ‘No. 31. Two Inscriptions of Sena I,’ Epigraphia Zeylanica 3, pp. 289–291. |
| Details | First recorded by H. C. P. Bell in 1892 in the village of Kivulekada, one and a half miles from Ayitigevewa in North-Central Province. The local Arachchi informed Bell that he had discovered the inscription when he had the slab dug out of the ground for use as a support in his aṭuva (granary). In 1928, Senarath Paranavitana visited the village and found the pillar lying, half-buried, on the ground with the inscribed face downwards, near the spill of the Kuḍā Kivulēkaḍa by the side of the footpath leading to the village of Maha Kivulēkaḍa. |
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