The inscription is engraved around four sides of the smoothed upper surface of a stone seat (āsana). It was discovered in the jungle some two hundred yards to the east of the ruin known as Ran-kot-vehera in Poḷonnaruva. The inscription consists of six lines and dates from the reign of Niśśaṅka-Malla (1187-1196 A.D.). It gives an account of some of Niśśaṅka-Malla’s acts, before identifying the seat as the one which the king occupied to watch the construction of the Ruvanväli-dāgaba at Poḷonnaruva. Wickremasinghe notes that the stone-seat inscription must be earlier than the Galpota inscription (IN03081) because the latter post-dates the completion of the Ruvanväli-dāgaba. This dāgaba was built to a height of eighty cubits and adorned with a golden pinnacle, from which it gets its present name: Ran-kot-vehera (‘golden-spire-monastery’).
Edited in Rhys Davids 1875, republished in Müller 1883: 67, 101-102 and 135, no. 151. Re-edited by Wickremasinghe in Epigraphia Zeylanica 2 (1912-27) 134-137, no. 22.
Rhys Davids (1875) 166-167
Müller (1883) 67, 101-102 and 135, no. 151
Epigraphia Zeylanica 2 (1912-27) 134-137, no. 22