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| Object ID | OB03132 |
| Title | Mäda-Ulpota Pillar |
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| Inscription(s) | IN03160 |
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| Author | Senarath Paranavitana |
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| Description | |
| Material | Stone / unspecified |
| Object Type | Pillar |
| Dimensions: | |
| Width | 21.59 cm |
| Height | 91.44 cm |
| Depth | 21.59 cm |
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| Details | The lower part of a quadrangular stone pillar, engraved on all four sides with an inscription. The letters are engraved between parallel lines three inches (7.62 cm) apart from one another. The dimensions above do not include the base of the pillar, which is buried in the ground. |
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| Found: | |
| Date | about 1931 |
| Place | Mäda-Ulpota |
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| Place | Mäda-Ulpota |
| Authority | Paranavitana, S. (1934–41). ‘No. 7. Mäda-Ulpota Pillar-Inscription,’ Epigraphia Zeylanica 4, pp. 54–58. |
| Details | Unearthed in about 1931 in the paddy field at Mäda-Ulpota, an abandoned village in the Gan̆gala Uḍasiya Pattuva of the Mātaḷē District. This location appears to be somewhere to the north of the Knuckles mountain range. The pillar fragment now stands in a chena adjoining the field. The inscription was first copied for scholarship by Senarath Paranavitana in July 1932. |
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