Siddham. The Asian Inscription Database | IN03072 Bilibǟva Pillar Inscription

The inscription was discovered in 1896 by the Archaeological Commissioner, H. C. P. Bell, at Bilibǟva in Ihala Kälǟgam Tulāna, about fifteen miles to the south-west of Anurādhapura. Engraved on three sides of a stone pillar, it consists of 80 lines in the Sinhalese alphabet of the latter half of the 10th century A.D. The text is dated to the seventh year of king Abhā Salamevan’s reign and records a grant of immunities to Mahagǟpiyova, a village in the district of Pirivatu in the Southern Quarter, dedicated to the Kasub-Senevirad-pirivena which Sak-Senevi San̆galnāvan had built in the Mahāvihāra. Wickremasinghe suggests that the biruda Abhā Salamevan refers in this instance to Kassapa V.

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Critical Edition

Side A

[line 1] Siri-barä Kä-

[line 2] -t kula kot

[line 3] Okāvas pa-

[line 4] -rapuren ba-

[line 5] -ṭ Lak-div-

[line 6] poḷoyon pa-

[line 7] -rapuren hi-

[line 8] -mivū Siri Sa-

[line 9] -n̆g-bo Maha-ra-

[line 10] -d-hu sat nä-

[line 11] -n̆gū nava vana

[line 12] havuruduye-

[line 13] -hi Pāṇ̆ḍi-raṭ

[line 14] pähärä diya-

[line 15] kitti-lad

[line 16] maha-rad-hu

[line 17] (da)ru de-bise-

[line 18] -vä-dā Abhā Sa-

[line 19] -lamevan Mapu-

[line 20] -rumukā sat-

[line 21] -vanney du-

[line 22] -rutte ava

[line 23] viseni dava-

[line 24] -s Piritti-

[line 25] -rad Kasbā-

[line 26] varä vana me-

[line 27] -kāppar De-

Side B

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

[line 2] Karāgam Seni-

[line 3] -m isā Ätä (Ya-)

[line 4] -säyim isā Sa-

[line 5] -nd Piritti-ra-

[line 6] -dun dā vasä sa-

[line 7] -bhāyen ā Bämä

[line 8] Budim isā me-

[line 9] -hi mä Nimulim

[line 10] isā metuvāk de-

[line 11] -namo ek-tän-sa-

[line 12] -miyen vändä vadā-

[line 13] -ḷeyin avud Maha-

[line 14] -veherä Sak-Se-

[line 15] -nevi San̆gal-nāva-

[line 16] -n kärävū Kasub-

[line 17] Senevirad-piri-

[line 18] -venaṭ bahālū da-

[line 19] -kuṇ pasä Piri-va-

[line 20] -tu-bimä āvū Maha-

[line 21] -gǟ-piyovä sata-

[line 22] -r sīmāyen ätu-

[line 23] -ḷ-vū-tāk-tänaṭ

[line 24] deruvanǟ dekam-tä-

[line 25] -n no vadnā isā

[line 26] man̆giva piyan̆giva

[line 27] melā(ṭsi) rad-ko-

[line 28] -l-kämiyan no va-

[line 29] -dnā isā vela-yu-

[line 30] -t pas-denā no va-

[line 31] -dnā isā raṭ-la-

Side C

[line 1] -du pas-Iadu pere-

[line 2] -läkkan no vad-

[line 3] -nā isā gäl mivu-

[line 4] -n väriyan no ga-

[line 5] -nnā isā (sändive)

[line 6] de-utu-kiri no ga-

[line 7] -nnā isā meyaṭ

[line 8] koṭā van vädä no

[line 9] gannā isā metu-

[line 10] -vāk dǟ ek-tän-

[line 11] -samiyen vändä va-

[line 12] -dāḷeyin ā rad-

[line 13] kol-samdaruva

[line 14] -mo Mahagǟpiyova-

[line 15] -ṭ satara sīmāye-

[line 16] -n ätuḷ-vū-täk-

[line 17] tänaṭ me attā-

[line 18] -ṇi-ka(ṇu) pärähär

[line 19] abhaya denu-ladi

[line 20] meyaṭ (aniyā) ..

[line 21] .. [kavuḍu] balu .. ..

[line 22] .. ..