The inscription is engraved around four sides of the smoothed upper surface of a granite seat or āsana. In 1927, Wickremasinghe reported that the seat stood a few feet off the south-east corner of the site of a Piḷima-gē (‘image-house’) in the group of ruins on the Tōpa-väva quadrangle (the Dalada Maluwa) in Polonnaruwa. The inscription indicates the āsana as that on which king Niśśaṅka-Malla used to sit whenever he witnessed the dramatic and musical entertainments which were held in the Kāliṅga-vana after his return from his Ceylong tours and his Indian campaign. Niśśaṅka Malla reigned from 1187 to 1196 A.D. According to the Poḷonnaruva Häṭa-dā-gē Vestibule Wall Inscription (IN03079), Niśśaṅka Malla began his journeys around Ceylon in the second year of his reign i.e. 1188-89 A.D. As the present inscription refers to these journeys, it must date from after 1188 A.D.
[line 1] [Śrī] Siri-San̆gabo Vīra-rāja Niśśaṁka-Malla Aprati-Malla Kā[li]n̆ga-Cakravarttin-vahanse muḷu Lak-diva niṣkaṇṭaka-[koṭä sat] set-koṭä perä rajun no-bada aya genä du[stha-kaḷa Laṁkā-vāsinṭa] pas hayuruddaka aya härä havurudu patā pas
[line 2] tulā-bhārayak dī nam gam vahal sarak pamuṇu parapuru vastrābharaṇādi boho vastu dī suva-pat-karavā käti-aḍa hä(mä kala)ṭa-mä härä val maha-vǟ tänä prāṇīnṭa abhaya dī (svadeśa) paradeśayehi boho satra naṁvā maha-dan pavatvā tun-raja-
[line 3] -ya pädakuṇu-koṭä siyalu jala-durgga giri-durgga vana-durgga paṁka-durgga hā raṭa bim balā loka śāsana samraddha-koṭä yuddhāśāyen siyuran̆ga-senan̆ga pirivarā Dam̆ba-divu väḍä dvandva yuddha(ilvā) no-ladin Coḍa Pāṇḍyādi raja-daruvan
[line 4] veḷa-genä evū ranä än̆gili hā rāja-kanyakāvan hā paṇ̆ḍuru däkä jaya-stambha karavā Lakdivu väḍä daśa-rāja-dharmmayen rājya keremin Kāliṁga-vanayehi nratya-gīta balā väḍahindinā śilāsanayayi.
[line 1] [Śrī] Siri-San̆gabo Vīra-rāja Niśśaṁka-Malla Aprati-Malla Kā[li]n̆ga-Cakravarttin-vahanse muḷu Lak-diva niṣkaṇṭaka-[koṭä sat] set-koṭä perä rajun no-bada aya genä du[stha-kaḷa Laṁkā-vāsinṭa] pas hayuruddaka aya härä havurudu patā pas
[line 2] tulā-bhārayak dī nam gam vahal sarak pamuṇu parapuru vastrābharaṇādi boho vastu dī suva-pat-karavā käti-aḍa hä(mä kala)ṭa-mä härä val maha-vǟ tänä prāṇīnṭa abhaya dī (svadeśa) paradeśayehi boho satra naṁvā maha-dan pavatvā tun-raja-
[line 3] -ya pädakuṇu-koṭä siyalu jala-durgga giri-durgga vana-durgga paṁka-durgga hā raṭa bim balā loka śāsana samraddha-koṭä yuddhāśāyen siyuran̆ga-senan̆ga pirivarā Dam̆ba-divu väḍä dvandva yuddha(ilvā) no-ladin Coḍa Pāṇḍyādi raja-daruvan
[line 4] veḷa-genä evū ranä än̆gili hā rāja-kanyakāvan hā paṇ̆ḍuru däkä jaya-stambha karavā Lakdivu väḍä daśa-rāja-dharmmayen rājya keremin Kāliṁga-vanayehi nratya-gīta balā väḍahindinā śilāsanayayi.