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| Object ID | OB03154 |
| Title | Gonnǟva Dēvāle Fragmentary Pillar |
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| Inscription(s) | IN03195 |
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| Author | Senarath Paranavitana |
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| Description | |
| Material | Stone / unspecified |
| Object Type | Pillar |
| Dimensions: | |
| Width | 27.94 cm |
| Height | 106.68 cm |
| Depth | 21.59 cm |
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| Details | The upper part of a stone pillar engraved on all four faces with an inscription. The inscription originally continued on the lower part of the pillar, which is missing. The writing is engraved between horizontal lines which are 2½ inches (6.35 cm) apart from one another. Various symbols are engraved on side D of the pillar; these are: (1) two concentric circles, the inner of which is divided into quadrants by straight lines at right angles to each other; (2) a semi-circle; and (3) the symbol usually described as representing a monk’s fan. |
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| Other modern history | It is said to have been found in a land named Malhēna or Polgasyāya. |
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| Place | Gonnǟva |
| Authority | Paranavitana, S. (1934–41). ‘No. 23. Inscription on a Pillar Fragment at the Gonnǟva Dēvāle,’ Epigraphia Zeylanica 4, pp. 186–191. |
| Details | The surviving fragment of the pillar was first highlighted for scholarship in the Ceylon Journal of Science, Section G, vol. ii, p. 221. It is said to have been found in a land named Malhēna or Polgasyāya. In the 1930s, it was lying in the maṇḍapa of the modern dēvāle at Gonnǟva in the Dēvamädi Kōraḷē of the Kuruṇǟgala District (probably Gonnawa at 7.596588, 80.240385 or possibly Gonnawa at 7.518511, 80.107520), as Senarath Paranavitana recorded in the fourth volume of Epigraphia Zeylanica (p. 186). |
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