The inscription is engraved on three sides of a quadrangular stone pillar found at Alutwväva (Alutwewa, a hamlet near Eppavala), where it was examined by H. C. P. Bell in 1895. The text gives details of a council warrant. Certain portions of the text are no longer legible and, as a consequence, the exact purport of the warrant is unclear. The readable part of the inscription enumerates certain properties in Mahademeṭi-kuḷiya, which are described as being under the management of one Tinḍī Kitu. However, given the damage to the text, it is not possible to say whether the properties were gifted to this man or whether he only received certain privileges in connection with them.

 

The inscription gives the date upon which the warrant was approved and the date upon which it was proclaimed. Both dates are in the lunar month Und-väp (Nov.-Dec.) in either the fifth or the twentieth (the text is not entirely clear) regnal year of king Siri San̆g-bo. The biruda Siri San̆g-bo was used by several Sri Lankan kings. Dating the inscription on palaeographic grounds to around the tenth century A.D., Wickremasinghe suggests that Siri San̆g-bo refers in this instance to either Sena II (r. 866-901 A.D.) or Kassapa IV (r. 912-929 A.D.), both of whom are known to have used the title. The palaeography more strongly supports the case for Kassapa IV but, of the two, only Sena II ruled for more than twenty years, making him the likelier possibility if the regnal year is interpreted as ‘twentieth’, rather than ‘fifth’.

Side A
[line 1] Lak-div poḷo-
[line 2] -yona parpuren hi-
[line 3] -mi-vū Siri San̆g-bo
[line 4] maha-rad-hu (vä)s-van-
[line 5] -ney Und-väpä ava
[line 6] viseni davas (vända)
[line 7] vadāḷeyin ā Ma-
[line 8] -n̆gul-rad Senu varä me-
[line 9] -kāppar Maha-na(va)-ga-
[line 10] -m-kaḍayim Kelǟ
[line 11] Mihindim isā ma-
[line 12] -hā-le Kasbā Rak-
[line 13] -samaṇan varä Ku-
[line 14] -ṇ̆ḍasalā (Viset)-de-
[line 15] -vu ätuḷ-vä metuvā-
[line 16] -k denamo ek-se-
[line 17] vä Ma(ha)demeti-ku-
[line 18] -ḷiyehi aya-vū (He-)
[line 19] -viṭiyen kärä(r-)
[line 20] (-sā) de kiri ek pā
[line 21] tun massak (ji-)
Side B
[line 1] -väl karä tun pā
[line 2] tun massak ä-
[line 3] -tuḷ-vä sā kiriyak
[line 4] isā raṭ sivu bim
[line 5] .. .. .. .. .. .. .. ..
[line 6] ätuḷ koṭ sa ge-
[line 7] bimakaṭ gab ge-
[line 8] vatu pǟḷa dor isā
[line 9] kärär(tasā) tal
[line 10] .. .. .. isā govi
[line 11] .. .. (a)rub isā
[line 12] .. (rä) mī gas aṭa-
[line 13] -ki govīn-nämä (pi-)
[line 14] -ṭiyen satar a-
[line 15] -muṇak hamu-yana
[line 16] piṭihā de amu-
[line 17] -ṇakaṭ und-bim ä-
[line 18] -tuḷ-vä metuvāk
[line 19] tän aya-vū se ä-
[line 20] -tuḷ rakval kara-
[line 21] -na Tiṇḍī Kitu tamā
Side C
[line 1] .. .. .. .. .. .. .. ..
[line 2] (rä)ga denva[nu i-]
[line 3] -sā denu koṭ (vä-)
[line 4] -s vanne Undvap
[line 5] sand pun mas-hi da-
[line 6] -sa pak davas me
[line 7] attāṇi päräha-
[line 8] -r denu ladi meya-
[line 9] -ṭ aniyā kaḷahu
[line 10] kavuḍu balu vet-
[line 11] -vā eḷu märuvā kaḷa
[line 12] akusal gattaha
Side A
[line 1] Lak-div poḷo-
[line 2] -yona parpuren hi-
[line 3] -mi-vū Siri San̆g-bo
[line 4] maha-rad-hu (vä)s-van-
[line 5] -ney Und-väpä ava
[line 6] viseni davas (vända)
[line 7] vadāḷeyin ā Ma-
[line 8] -n̆gul-rad Senu varä me-
[line 9] -kāppar Maha-na(va)-ga-
[line 10] -m-kaḍayim Kelǟ
[line 11] Mihindim isā ma-
[line 12] -hā-le Kasbā Rak-
[line 13] -samaṇan varä Ku-
[line 14] -ṇ̆ḍasalā (Viset)-de-
[line 15] -vu ätuḷ-vä metuvā-
[line 16] -k denamo ek-se-
[line 17] vä Ma(ha)demeti-ku-
[line 18] -ḷiyehi aya-vū (He-)
[line 19] -viṭiyen kärä(r-)
[line 20] (-sā) de kiri ek pā
[line 21] tun massak (ji-)
Side B
[line 1] -väl karä tun pā
[line 2] tun massak ä-
[line 3] -tuḷ-vä sā kiriyak
[line 4] isā raṭ sivu bim
[line 5] .. .. .. .. .. .. .. ..
[line 6] ätuḷ koṭ sa ge-
[line 7] bimakaṭ gab ge-
[line 8] vatu pǟḷa dor isā
[line 9] kärär(tasā) tal
[line 10] .. .. .. isā govi
[line 11] .. .. (a)rub isā
[line 12] .. (rä) mī gas aṭa-
[line 13] -ki govīn-nämä (pi-)
[line 14] -ṭiyen satar a-
[line 15] -muṇak hamu-yana
[line 16] piṭihā de amu-
[line 17] -ṇakaṭ und-bim ä-
[line 18] -tuḷ-vä metuvāk
[line 19] tän aya-vū se ä-
[line 20] -tuḷ rakval kara-
[line 21] -na Tiṇḍī Kitu tamā
Side C
[line 1] .. .. .. .. .. .. .. ..
[line 2] (rä)ga denva[nu i-]
[line 3] -sā denu koṭ (vä-)
[line 4] -s vanne Undvap
[line 5] sand pun mas-hi da-
[line 6] -sa pak davas me
[line 7] attāṇi päräha-
[line 8] -r denu ladi meya-
[line 9] -ṭ aniyā kaḷahu
[line 10] kavuḍu balu vet-
[line 11] -vā eḷu märuvā kaḷa
[line 12] akusal gattaha