Siddham. The Asian Inscription Database | IN03067 Tim̆biriväva Pillar Inscription

The inscribed pillar was found at Tim̆biriväva, where it was examined by the Archaeological Commissioner H. C. P. Bell between 1898 and 1900. Tim̆biriväva is a small village in the Pahala Kälǟgam Tulāna of Vilacciya Kōrole, about twenty-three miles to the west-south-west of Anurādhapura. Written in Sinhalese alphabet of the 10th century A.D., the inscription covers three sides of the pillar and half of the fourth. It badly worn and illegible in places. The inscription is dated to the first year in the reign of Kassapa IV, called here by his biruda Kasub Siri San̆g-bo, and records immunities granted to the village Mibäḷi-gama attached to the Māḍbiyan-pirivena. The first twelve lines are almost word-for-word identified to those of the Moragoḍa pillar inscription of Kassapa IV (IN03059), which is dated fifteen years later.

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Side A

[line 1] (Siri Lak-di-

[line 2] -vhi pihiṭi)

[line 3] siri-piḍ ya-

[line 4] -sa isiri Ruhu-

[line 5] -ṇu-danavuMa(la-)ma-

[line 6] -ṇ̆ḍulu tamahaṭ

[line 7] piribo kaḷa Udǟ

[line 8] Abhā Salameva-

[line 9] -n maharad-hu so-

[line 10] -hovur Kasub

[line 11] Siri San̆g-bo

[line 12] Mapurmuka paḷa-

[line 13] -mu vannehi

[line 14] Vesaga pura

[line 15] dasa-pak dava-

[line 16] -s vadāleyi-

[line 17] -n ā Mekāp-

[line 18] -par-Vädǟrum

[line 19] Vidura(n̆gu-)nā

[line 20] Nimulā-varä

[line 21] Mekappar (Da-)

[line 22] -mi(nnani) Sa-

[line 23] -kim isā Me-

[line 24] -kāppar (Hǟ-)

[line 25] (-tä Kon̆da)yi-

Side B

[line 1] -m isā Ma-

[line 2] -hā-le Nimu-

[line 3] -l Mihind-arak-

[line 4] -samaṇan-va-

[line 5] -rä Kuṇ̆ḍasalā

[line 6] Nā(ṭu-de)ṭim

[line 7] isā äp

[line 8] metuvāk de-

[line 9] -namo va .. .. ..

[line 10] .. (säni) ā-

[line 11] -vū (Naḍ-raṭ-hi)

[line 12] Māḍbiyan-

[line 13] piriven (ba-)

[line 14] -d (Mibäḷi-)gama-

[line 15] -ṭ .. .. dunumaḍu-

[line 16] -lu melātti

[line 17] no vadna ko-

[line 18] -ṭ isā ma-

[line 19] -n̆giva piyangi-

[line 20] -va no vadnā

[line 21] koṭ isā

[line 22] (Solī Pān̆di) ..

[line 23] -mbur no ko

[line 24] .. .. vanu isā

[line 25] .. .. .. .. .. ..

[line 26] .. .. .. .. .. ..

[line 27] .. .. .. .. .. ..

[line 28] .. .. .. .. .. ..

Side C

[line 1] .. .. .. .. .. ..

[line 2] .. .. .. .. .. ..

[line 3] .. .. .. .. .. ..

[line 4] väriyan no

[line 5] gannā koṭ

[line 6] isā kiri ge-

[line 7] (-ri) gäl (mivu)n

[line 8] no gannā

[line 9] isā de-kam-

[line 10] -tän deruva-

[line 11] -nǟ no vadnā

[line 12] isā pere-

[line 13] (-läkkan van)

[line 14] gämähi (siṭa)

[line 15] tirä koṭ ga-

[line 16] -t daḍ rad-kola-

[line 17] -ṭ no genä pi-

[line 18] -rivenaṭ de(nu)

[line 19] isā vadāḷeyi-

[line 20] -n ā rat-kol-

[line 21] [-samdaruvamo?]

[line 22] .. .. .. .. .. .. ..

[line 23] .. .. .. .. .. .. ..

[line 24] .. .. .. .. .. .. ..

[line 25] .. .. .. .. .. .. ..

Side D

[line 1] (-yim) .. .. ..

[line 2] me peräha-

[line 3] -r dī me at-

[line 4] -tāṇi-kaṇu

[line 5] hi(nd-vūm-)

[line 6] (-hayi) .. .. .. ..

[line 7] .. .. .. .. .. ..

[line 8] .. .. .. .. .. ..