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Object ID OB03118
Title Kivulekada Pillar of Sena I
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Inscription(s) IN03143
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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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