The inscription is engraved on a quadrangular stone pillar, which was at the Archaeological Museum at Anurādhapura in around 1930, as recorded by S. Paranavitana in Epigraphia Zeylanica (vol. 3, p. 126). Paranavitana also reported that the pillar was said to have been discovered in the jungle to the west of the Jaffna road, not far from the town of Anurādhapura. The pillar is inscribed on all four sides but only one side remains legible, the writing on the other three having been almost completely obliterated. The legible portion of the inscription consists of thirty-eight lines and represents the introductory part of the text. It includes a date in the second year of king Dāpuḷu Abahay, whom H. C. P. Bell identified as Dappula V (r. 940–952 A.D.). As the bulk of the inscription is no longer legible, the purpose of the text is not entirely clear. However, the damaged text on the third side of the pillar appears to mention the boundaries of a certain land, suggesting that – like the majority of pillar inscription of the period – the inscription was probably concerned with a grant of immunities.

Epigraphia Zeylanica
Paranavitana, S. (1928-33). ‘No. 8. A Fragmentary Inscription on a Pillar Discovered near the Jaffna Road, Anurādharpura (A. S. I., No. 92),’ Epigraphia Zeylanica 3, p. 128.

On the tenth day of the first half of the lunar month of Mändin (February–March), in the second year after the umbrella of dominion was raised by the great king Dāpuḷu Abahay, descended from the lineage of King Okāvas (Ikṣvāku) the pinnacle of the Kṣatriya race, His Royal Highness Kasub (Kassapa) the son of the sub-king Mihind (Mahinda) the paternal uncle of this [King Dāpuḷu]; who was nurtured by the queen Maha (Saṅghā), with the same affection as for a son of her [own] bosom: who is established in his own office which has come down in succession from his grandfather . . . . . . . . . . which is being enjoyed by males not violating the order of seniority . . . . . . . . . . . .

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