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| Object ID | OB03122 |
| Title | Budumuttǟva Inscribed Pillar 2 |
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| Inscription(s) | IN03147 |
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| Related Objects | OB03121 |
| Responsibility | |
| Author | Senarath Paranavitana |
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| Description | |
| Material | Stone / unspecified |
| Object Type | Pillar |
| Dimensions: | |
| Width | 26.67 cm |
| Height | 182.88 cm |
| Depth | 26.67 cm |
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| Details | A quadrangular stone pillar engraved on one side with two apparently unconnected inscriptions. The first inscription is a brief Tamil epigraph at the top of the pillar, only traces of which remain visible. The second inscription (IN03147) appears below this epitaph and is longer, consisting of twenty-one lines. |
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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. 308–312. |
| 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 OB03121 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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