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| Object ID | OB03121 |
| Title | Budumuttǟva Inscribed Pillar 1 |
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| Inscription(s) | IN03146 |
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| Related Objects | OB03122 |
| Responsibility | |
| Author | Senarath Paranavitana |
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| Description | |
| Material | Stone / unspecified |
| Object Type | Pillar |
| Dimensions: | |
| Width | 26.035 cm |
| Height | 182.88 cm |
| Depth | 23.495 cm |
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| Details | Dimensions exclude the portion of the pillar now buried below the floor level. A quadrangular stone pillar surmounted by a wooden capital of the usual Kandyan type. The pillar is engraved with two apparently unconnected inscriptions. The first inscription is a brief epitaph in the Grantha script and Sanskrit language, consisting of three lines at the top of side A and three more in a corresponding position on side B; this text is partly concealed by the wooden capital and cannot be satisfactorily made out. The second inscription is longer, covering three sides of the pillar (sides A, B and C). It is written in the Tamil script and the letters are engraved between ruled lines 2¼ inches (5.715 cm) apart on sides A and B, but side C is not ruled. The fourth side of the pillar is blank. Sides A and C are in a good state of preservation but side B has been badly damaged by exposure to sun and rain, rendering all but the top three lines and bottom five lines of the inscription on that side illegible. |
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| Found: | |
| Date | before 1883 |
| Place | Budumuttawa |
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| Place | Budumuttawa |
| Authority | Paranavitana, S. (1928-33). ‘No. 33. Two Tamil Pillar Inscriptions from Budumuttǟva,’ Epigraphia Zeylanica 3, pp. 302–307. |
| Details | Discovered supporting the shrine in the Buddhist temple at Budumuttǟva (Budumattawa), a village situated about a mile to the north-west of Nikaväraṭiya in the Kuruṇǟgala District. The temple was built during Kandyan times. The shrine consists of a wood and clay superstructure supported on a number of stone pillars, all of which appear to have been scavenged from the ruins of earlier buildings, though their original contexts are not known. Tamil inscriptions appear on two of these pillars, one of which is the subject of this record (see OB03122 for the other). These inscriptions were first recorded by Edward Müller in his Ancient Inscriptions of Ceylon (1883: 60, no. 1). |
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