Siddham. The Asian Inscription Database | IN03069 Kukurumahan-Damana Pillar Inscription

The inscription is engraved on all four sides of a stone pillar. It was discovered by the Archaeological Commissioner, H. C. P. Bell, in September 1896. The pillar was lying almost embedded in the ground about thirty miles west-north-west of Anurādhapura in what is now the Vilpattu National Park. Bell erroneously identified the find-spot as Kukurumahan Damana (an identification repeated by Wickremasinghe) when it was in fact Mallimaḍu, according to C. W. Nicholas in the Journal of the Ceylon Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society (1963). The inscription consists of 73 lines in the Sinhalese alphabet of the 10th century A.D. It is dated in the eleventh of the reign of king Siri San̆g-bo and records the granting of certain immunities by the king and his Council in respect of Kereḷǟ-gama, a village belonging to the hospital built by the Commander-in-Chief Gēna opposite the nunnery called Mahindārāma on the High Street of the Inner City of Anuradhapura. Wickremasinghe argues that the biruda Siri San̆g-bo refers in this instance to Kassapa IV, whose reign lasted from 912 to 929.

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Critical Edition

Side A

[line 1] Siri San̆g-bo

[line 2] Mapurmukā

[line 3] ekaḷos va-

[line 4] -nne Mändin-

[line 5] -dinä pura vi-

[line 6] -seni davas

[line 7] Sen Senevi-

[line 8] radāṇan ä-

[line 9] -tuḷ-nuvarä Ma-

[line 10] -n̆gul maha-ve-

[line 11] -yä Mihind-a-

[line 12] -ram meheṇi-

[line 13] -var pereṭ (kärū)

[line 14] ved-halä ba-

[line 15] -d pä(ḷä-)pasä

[line 16] (valapu-) bimä ā-

[line 17] -vū (Ke)reḷǟ-gäma

[line 18] sīmā-pahaṇ

[line 19] attāṇi-kaṇu

[line 20] hind-vannaṭ

[line 21] vadāḷeyin

[line 22] sabhāyen ā

Side B

[line 1] Mä(ṇi)n-ga-

[line 2] -mu (Udahi) i-

[line 3] -sā Nika-vä-

[line 4] -li Senu i-

[line 5] -sā Maha-Ku-

[line 6] -bussā(lu)

[line 7] Mitu isā (Ri-)

[line 8] (-n̆gǟ-)va Rad-si-

[line 9] -vu-varä Mekā-

[line 10] -ppar (Na)mu-

[line 11] -ḍǟ Nilā i-

[line 12] -sā (Digivi-)

[line 13] (-li-Kaṇṇuā)

[line 14] ätuḷ-vä

[line 15] metuvāk

[line 16] samdaru-

[line 17] -van-visi-

[line 18] -n me gama-

[line 19] -ṭ piyo-va-

[line 20] -dāranuva-

[line 21] -n no vad-

[line 22] -nā koṭ i-

Side C

[line 1] -sā raṭ-ladu pa-

[line 2] -s-laduvan no

[line 3] vadnā koṭ i-

[line 4] -sā rad-kol-kä-

[line 5] -miyan no vadko-

[line 6] -ṭ isā melā-

[line 7] -ttin no vad-

[line 8] -nā koṭ isā ma-

[line 9] -n̆giva piyagiva

[line 10] no vadnā koṭ

[line 11] isā deruvanǟ

[line 12] dekam-tän no

[line 13] vadnā koṭ i-

[line 14] -sā gäl gon

[line 15] väri mīvun no

[line 16] gannā koṭ i-

[line 17] -sā aräkka-

[line 18] -n pereläk-

[line 19] -kan no vadnā

[line 20] koṭ isā a-

[line 21] -bhaya sand-hā

[line 22] vannan no ga-

[line 23] -nnā koṭ me

[line 24] gämhi attā-

[line 25] -ṇi-ka ṇu hind-

Side D

[line 1] -vā vadāḷe-

[line 2] -yin me pä-

[line 3] -rähär de-

[line 4] -nu ladi