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| Object ID | OB03133 |
| Title | Poḷonnaruva Pillar of Mahinda V |
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| Inscription(s) | IN03161 |
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| Responsibility | |
| Author | Senarath Paranavitana |
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| Description | |
| Material | Stone / unspecified |
| Object Type | Pillar |
| Dimensions: | |
| Width | 20.32 cm |
| Height | 152.4 cm |
| Depth | 17.78 cm |
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| Details | A quadrangular stone pillar, engraved on all four sides with an inscription. The pillar’s base and capital are both missing and it seems to have been utilised as a lintel, for on one side are two square mortice holds, which were obviously intended for fitting it to the two door-jambs. |
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| Found: | |
| Date | between 1901 and 1905 |
| Place | Polonnaruwa |
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| Place | Archaeological Museum, Anuradhapura |
| Authority | Paranavitana, S. (1934–41). ‘No. 8. Poḷonnaruva Pillar-Inscription of Mahinda V,’ Epigraphia Zeylanica 4, pp. 59–67. |
| Details | Discovered at the eastern porch of the Quadrangle at Poḷonnaruva and afterwards moved to the Archaeological Museum at Anurādhapura. H. C. P. Bell included the pillar in the list of inscriptions copied between 1901 and 1905 in the Annual Report of the Archaeological Survey of Ceylon for 1905 (p. 40, no. 42). |
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