Metadata |
Object ID |
OB03118 |
Title |
Kivulekada Pillar of Sena I |
Subtitle |
|
Inscription(s) |
IN03143
|
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 |
35.56 cm |
Height |
91.44 cm |
Depth |
|
Weight |
|
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 |
Created: |
|
Date |
|
Place |
|
Other ancient history |
|
Found: |
|
Date |
1892 |
Place |
Kivulekada |
Other modern history |
|
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.
|
Notes |
|