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
Date:
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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