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| Object ID | OB03131 |
| Title | Vihāregama Pillar |
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| Inscription(s) | IN03159 |
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| Author | Senarath Paranavitana |
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| Description | |
| Material | Stone / unspecified |
| Object Type | Pillar |
| Dimensions: | |
| Width | 26.67 cm |
| Height | 80.01 cm |
| Depth | 25.4 cm |
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| Details | The upper half of a quadrangular stone pillar with a kalasa-shaped capital. The dimensions above do not include the capital of the pillar. The pillar is engraved on all four sides with an inscription. After the fifth line of the inscription on the fourth side of the pillar occur four symbols which are usually found at the close of pillar inscriptions of the ninth and tenth centuries. However, the record does not appear to have ended here. Possibly, the remaining part of the sentence was inscribed below these symbols on the missing portion of the pillar. Horizontal lines are drawn, roughly parallel to one another, at an average distance of 6¼ inches (15.875 cm) on three sides of the pillar, dividing the inscription into blocks of three or four lines each. |
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| Place | Unknown |
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| Place | Vihāregama |
| Authority | Paranavitana, S. (1934–41). ‘No. 6. Vihāregama Pillar-Inscription,’ Epigraphia Zeylanica 4, pp. 50–54. |
| Details | Situated at the bottom of the rough stone steps leading to the top of the hill at the ancient monastery known as Rajamaha Vihāra at Vihāregama in the Uḍukaha Kōraḷē West of the Dam̆badeṇi Hatpattu in the Kuruṇǟgala District. The pillar is said to have been moved to its present site from a neighbouring chena in the late nineteenth or early twentieth century but its original location is not known. The inscription was copied for scholarship for the first time by Senarath Paranavitana in 1931 (see Ceylon Journal of Science, Section G, vol. ii, p. 211). |
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