The inscription of 49 lines is written in the same style and language than the two tablets of Mihintale (IN3030). It was engraved just a few months later than those ones, during the reign of the king Mahinda IV (975-91 A.D.). It records rules for the administration of certain lands and villages. It also contains an important mention of the temple of the Buddha’s ‘Tooth-relic’ (Daḷ-dā-ge), which enabled the identification of this temple, rebuilt by Mahinda IV in the centre of the town, as the ruined site known as the Daḷadā Māligāva, situated south-east of the Thūparāma dāgäba.
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Inscription ID | IN03031 |
Title | Anuradhapura Slab Inscription of Mahinda IV |
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Parent Object | OB03026 |
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Author | Don Martino de Zilva Wickremasinghe |
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Language | සිංහල |
Reigning monarch | Mahinda IV |
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Topic | records rules for the administration of certain lands and villages |
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Min | 991 |
Max | 911 |
Comment | Basis for dating: intrinsic. The date given in the inscription is the tenth day of the dark half of the lunar month Mädindina in the sixteenth year of the reign of Mahinda IV (975-991). |
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Description | Letter size not reported. |
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Width | 81.28 |
Height | 195.58 |
Description | Forty-nine lines of boldly engraved writing. The central position of the inscription - from lines 10 to 46 - is totally obliterated, probably as a result of things being rubbed or ground on the slab. |
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References | Edited by Wickremasinghe in Epigraphia Zeylanica 1 (1904-12): 113-120, no. 8. |
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