Siddham. The Asian Inscription Database | IN03065 Kirigallǟva Pillar Inscription

The inscription is engraved on the four sides of a stone pillar discovered by Bell in 1892. The pillar was found in Kirigallǟva, a hamlet in Kaḍawat Kōrale, about twenty miles north-north-east of Anuradhapura. The inscription consists of 57 lines of writing in the Sinhalese alphabet of the 10th century A.D. It records the granting of immunities to a village called Itnaru-gama in Angam-kuḷiya (a district in the Northern Quarter) by decree of His Majesty Abhā Salamevan in the second year of his reign. Wickremasinghe suggests that the biruda Abhā Salamevan refers in this instance to Udaya I, who reigned from 901 to 912 A.D.

Diplomatic Edition
Critical Edition

Side A

[line 1] Abhā Salame-

[line 2] -van Mapur-

[line 3] -mukā sat nä-

[line 4] -n̆gū devana ha-

[line 5] -vurudu yehi

[line 6] Äseḷä pura

[line 7] dasa pak da-

[line 8] -vas Mekāppa-

[line 9] -rä-Vädǟrum

[line 10] Vadurā-varä

[line 11] vana Maṇiti-

[line 12] -Iǟ Kiliyem

[line 13] Gan̆guḷhusu

[line 14] Ag-boyim

[line 15] Mahale Ara-

Side B

[line 1] -ksama Ka-

[line 2] -sbā-varin

[line 3] ā (Kavasilā-)

[line 4] -n̆g Gavayim

[line 5] äp metuvā-

[line 6] -k denamo e-

[line 7] -k-se-vä vat-

[line 8] -himiyan e-

[line 9] -k-tän-sami-

[line 10] -yen vadāḷe-

[line 11] -yin Amga-

[line 12] -m-kuḷiyehi

[line 13] āvū (ltna-)

[line 14] (-ru)-gamaṭ du-

[line 15] -numaṇ̆ḍlan

Side C

[line 1] (kulī) melāsin

[line 2] man̆g-diva pe-

[line 3] -diva no vad-

[line 4] -nā koṭ rat-

[line 5] -kol-kämiya-

[line 6] -n peräläk-

[line 7] -kan se .. .. ..

[line 8] -ruvanǟ väs-

[line 9] -san peranā-

[line 10] -ṭṭiyam no va-

[line 11] -dnā koṭ gä-

[line 12] -l gon väri-

[line 13] -yan no nan̆ga-

[line 14] -nu koṭ vat-

[line 15] -himiyan va-

Side D

[line 1] -dāḷeyin me

[line 2] abhiṣēka dī

[line 3] attāṇi-ka-

[line 4] -ṇu hind-vūma-

[line 5] -ha meyaṭ vä-

[line 6] -dä ā(jn̆ā) u-

[line 7] -lä(gha)nā kaḷa

[line 8] kenekun ä-

[line 9] -ta des- .. ..

[line 10] .. karanu | ka-

[line 11] -vuḍu balu

[line 12] vanu | siddhi