Siddham. The Asian Inscription Database | IN03071 Ayitigeväva Pillar Inscription

The inscription was examined in 1892 by Bell and Wickremasinghe at Ayitigeväva, a small hamlet in Kum̆bukväva Tulāna in the Kuñcuṭṭu Kōrole, about twenty-five miles north-north-east of Anurādhapura. Engraved on all four sides of a stone pillar, it consists of 65 lines in the Sinhalese alphabet of the latter half of the 10th century A.D. The inscription is dated to the fifth year of Abhā Salamevan’s reign and records a grant of immunities to a certain plot of ground, five payalas in extent, belonging to Tisaram nunnery built on the ‘Auspicious High Street’ by the Commander-in-Chief Sēna. Wickremasinghe suggests that the biruda Abhā Salamevan refers in this instance to Kassapa V.

Diplomatic Edition
Critical Edition

Side A

[line 1] Abhā Salameva-

[line 2] -n Mapurmukā pa-

[line 3] -s vanne A-

[line 4] -seḷä pura dasa-

[line 5] -väkä vadāḷa e-

[line 6] -k-tän-sami-

[line 7] -yen sabhāye-

[line 8] -n ā (Ni)Ia-va-

[line 9] -sä Mandiyā i-

[line 10] -sā (Tuḍu-vas)

[line 11] Kämi Senu (isā)

[line 12] Senevirad Vadu-

[line 13] -rā-varä Mekāp-

[line 14] -par Namiḍǟ(rili)

[line 15] isā Tisǟ Se-

[line 16] -nu ätuḷ-vä me-

[line 17] -tuvāk sam-da-

[line 18] -ruvan-visin

Side B

[line 1] Sen Senevi-

[line 2] -radāṇan Man̆gu-

[line 3] -l Maha-veyä

[line 4] kärū Tisaram

[line 5] meheṇivar

[line 6] bad Loholu-

[line 7] -vilä kuḷiyehi

[line 8] āvū (De)meḷi-

[line 9] -n (-heṭihayi-)

[line 10] -n bahālū (saba-)

[line 11] -rǟ käbäli su-

[line 12] -amburǟ (padda-

[line 13] -lä) käbäli ä-

[line 14] -tuḷ-vä ek pa-

[line 15] -yal (seṇak)

[line 16] ätuḷa-vū su-

[line 17] amburǟ pas

[line 18] payalaṭ raṭ-

[line 19] ladu pas-ladu-

[line 20] -van no vad-

Side C

[line 1] -nā isā kulī

[line 2] melāṭsī no

[line 3] vadnā isā

[line 4] deruvanǟ de-

[line 5] kam-tän pe-

[line 6] -renāṭṭiya

[line 7] no vadnā i-

[line 8] -sā piyo-va-

[line 9] -dāranuvan rad-

[line 10] -kol-sam-da-

[line 11] -ruvan tol-

[line 12] -pāṭṭtin vä-

[line 13] -l-gattan

[line 14] no vadnā i-

[line 15] -sā man̆giva piya-

[line 16] -giva gäl gon

[line 17] mīvun väriyan

Side D

[line 1] no gannā isā

[line 2] koṭā vanna-

[line 3] -n no gannā

[line 4] koṭ sam-da-

[line 5] -ruvan-visin

[line 6] attāṇi-kaṇu

[line 7] hind-vā me pa-

[line 8] -s payalaṭ me-

[line 9] -se pärahär

[line 10] denu ladi