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.

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Inscription ID IN03065
Title Kirigallǟva Pillar Inscription
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Parent Object OB03045
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Author Don Martino de Zilva Wickremasinghe
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Language සිංහල
Reigning monarch Abhā Salamevan
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Topic records the granting of immunities to a village called Itnaru-gama in Angam-kuḷiya
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Comment Basis for dating: palaeography. Wickremasinghe suggests that the biruda Abhā Salamevan refers in this instance to Udaya I, who reigned from 901 to 912 A.D.
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Letter size 5.08
Description Letter size varies from 2.54 to 5.08 cm. Sinhalese alphabet of the 10th century A.D.
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Width 24.13
Height 152.4
Description 57 lines, engraved within ruled spaces on the four sides of a stone pillar (15 lines on the first, second and third sides, 12 lines on the fourth side).
Decoration A crow and a dog are carved beneath the inscription on the fourth side of the pillar.
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References Edited by Wickremasinghe in Epigraphia Zeylanica 2 (1912-27) 1-5, no. 1.
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