The inscription is engraved on a stone slab, which is now broken, only the upper part surviving. This fragment features nineteen complete lines of writing, plus a few letters from the end of a twentieth line. It is not possible to say how many lines were lost with the lower part of the slab. The surviving fragment was found at the building called ‘the Buddhist Railing’ near the Eastern (Jetavana) dāgäba at Anurādhapura and recorded in the Annual Report of the Archaeological Survey of Ceylon for 1892 (p. 9, no. 4). It was removed to the premises of the Archaeological Survey and was still there in the early 1930s when Senarath Paranavitana published his edition and translation of the inscription in the third volume of Epigraphia Zeylanica. The inscription is dated in the seventh year of Sirisaṅgbo Mahind (Mahinda IV) and proclaims certain rules concerning a ‘Water Pavilion’ (pän maḍiya) at the Ratnamāpirivena in the Jetavana monastery. If ‘Ratnamāpirivena’ refers to the building near which the inscription was found, it must have been the ancient name of ‘the Buddhist Railing’.

[line 1] Siribar-Sähä-kula-kot Okāvas- [parapure]-
[line 2] -n baṭ Sudovun-maharaj-hu anva [ye]-
[line 3] -n ā Paḍuvasdev-Abhā-maharaj-hu parapu-
[line 4] -ren baṭ Sirisaṅgbo-Mahind-maharaj-hu sa-
[line 5] -t läṅgu satvana havuruduyehi Sāguli-ma-
[line 6] -ha-himiyan nämin pāḷavu apis-satos-
[line 7] Tis-maha-teranaṭ pihiṭi Denā-raja-maha-vehe-
[line 8] -rhi Ratnamāpirivenhi vasana sag-mok--
[line 9] -mi uvasuvan visin käru me doroṭu-pän-maḍi-
[line 10] -yehi navātän no denu isā Senevira-
[line 11] -d-muḷä vū vana sag-mahalu-saṅgun visin
[line 12] me doroṭu-pän-maḍiyehi uḍu-mahāl yaṭa-ma-
[line 13] -hālhid pän-kaḷa tabana hārayehid kisi
[line 14] kavaru pariyāyekinud navātän no denu i-
[line 15] -sā me pän-maḍu-kusalān piḷibada upakaraṇa-
[line 16] -yen väḍi anun piḷibada uparaṇa no taba-
[line 17] -vanu isā mehekaruvange varayālen vä-
[line 18] -ḍi upakaraṇayak tubuva atä divel genä nernā
[line 19] isā nakayä vū vana saṅgunud saṅgun kere ba-
[line 20] .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. navātän nogan-
.. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. ..
[line 1] Siribar-Sähä-kula-kot Okāvas- [parapure]-
[line 2] -n baṭ Sudovun-maharaj-hu anva [ye]-
[line 3] -n ā Paḍuvasdev-Abhā-maharaj-hu parapu-
[line 4] -ren baṭ Sirisaṅgbo-Mahind-maharaj-hu sa-
[line 5] -t läṅgu satvana havuruduyehi Sāguli-ma-
[line 6] -ha-himiyan nämin pāḷavu apis-satos-
[line 7] Tis-maha-teranaṭ pihiṭi Denā-raja-maha-vehe-
[line 8] -rhi Ratnamāpirivenhi vasana sag-mok--
[line 9] -mi uvasuvan visin käru me doroṭu-pän-maḍi-
[line 10] -yehi navātän no denu isā Senevira-
[line 11] -d-muḷä vū vana sag-mahalu-saṅgun visin
[line 12] me doroṭu-pän-maḍiyehi uḍu-mahāl yaṭa-ma-
[line 13] -hālhid pän-kaḷa tabana hārayehid kisi
[line 14] kavaru pariyāyekinud navātän no denu i-
[line 15] -sā me pän-maḍu-kusalān piḷibada upakaraṇa-
[line 16] -yen väḍi anun piḷibada uparaṇa no taba-
[line 17] -vanu isā mehekaruvange varayālen vä-
[line 18] -ḍi upakaraṇayak tubuva atä divel genä nernā
[line 19] isā nakayä vū vana saṅgunud saṅgun kere ba-
[line 20] .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. navātän nogan-
.. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. ..