Vessagiri, or more commonly in Sinhalese Vessagiriya, is the traditional name of a forest-bound cluster of rocks in Anurādhapura. The site features three hummock-boulders of gneiss rock in a line from north to south (Rock A, Rock B and Rock C). The hummocks are surrounded by the ruins of a monastery, which had its cells in the caves of Rocks B and C (twenty-three caves in total). Some of the caves are inscribed with dedications to the Buddhist priesthood, plus there are a number of other rock inscriptions at the site.
Epigraphia Zeylanica
Wickremasinghe, Don Martino de Zilva. (1904-12). ‘No. 2. Vessagiri Inscriptions,’ Epigraphia Zeylanica 1, p. 19.
The Cave of the lay devotee Haruma, son of His Eminence Palikada, [is dedicated] to the [Buddhist] priesthood of the four quarters.