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| Object ID | OB03153 |
| Title | Malagaṇē Pillar |
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| Inscription(s) | IN03194 |
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| Responsibility | |
| Author | Senarath Paranavitana |
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| Description | |
| Material | Stone / unspecified |
| Object Type | Pillar |
| Dimensions: | |
| Width | 25.4 cm |
| Height | 182.88 cm |
| Depth | 26.67 cm |
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| Details | A rough stone pillar engraved on all four faces with an inscription. The writing is engraved between parallel lines, which are spaced 3⅝ inches (9.2075 cm) apart on sides A and B and 3 inches (7.62 cm) apart on sides C and D. Drawings of a fan, a scythe, a crow and a dog are incised on side D. A portion of the pillar surface has been peeled away on all four of its sides, partly obliterating two lines of the inscription on sides A and B and completing destroying three lines on side C. This damage was probably sustained when the pillar was moved from its original location. |
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| Place | Nuvarakälē |
| Other modern history | Sometime around the 1880s, the pillar was moved to Malagaṇē, where it was seen by the Archaeological Survey of Ceylon in or before 1910–11. |
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| Place | Malagaṇē |
| Authority | Paranavitana, S. (1934–41). ‘No. 22. Malagaṇē Pillar-Inscription,’ Epigraphia Zeylanica 4, pp. 180–186. |
| Details | In the 1930s, Senarath Paranavitana reported the pillar to be lying within the premises of the Buddhist temple at Malagaṇē in the Girātalān Kōraḷē of the Kuruṇǟgala District. He also noted that the pillar been removed to this position some fifty years previously from Nuvarakälē, an extensive ancient site about three miles to the north-east of Malagaṇē, and that it was initially used at Malagaṇē in the construction of a shrine, which had since been demolished. The inscription was first highlighted for scholarship in Archaeological Survey of Ceylon Annual Report for 1910–11 (Appendix F, p. 119, no. 105). |
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