The inscription is cut in bold letters on a rock in the village of Maḍavaḷa (Madawala) in the Pāta Dumbara division of Kandy District. It records a grant of land made to a silversmith Paramaṇāyā of Siddāvulla and his son Suriyā by King Siri San̆gbō Śrī Parākrama Bāhu VI in the year following the forty-sixth of his reign in the presence of Dantoṭa-vature Devan and Divāṇavatte Laṁkā Adhikārin. The signatures of these dignitaries are reproduced in the upper left-hand corner of the record as Äpaṇa and Joti Siṭāṇa. The latter is probably the ruler of the hill country, whose later rebellion is described in the Rājāvaliya. Parākrama Bāhu VI ascended to the throne in 1412 A.D. Accordingly, the date of the grant – the full moon of Vesak in his forty-seventh year – fell in April 1458.
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| Inscription ID | IN03134 |
| Title | Maḍavaḷa Rock Inscription |
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| Parent Object | OB03110 |
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| Author | H. W. Codrington |
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| Language | සිංහල |
| Reigning monarch | Parākrama Bāhu VI |
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| Topic | records a grant of land made to a silversmith Paramaṇāyā of Siddāvulla and his son Suriyā by King Siri San̆gbō Śrī Parākrama Bāhu VI in the year following the forty-sixth of his reign in the presence of Dantoṭa-vature Devan and Divāṇavatte Laṁkā Adhikārin |
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| Min | 1458 |
| Max | 1458 |
| Comment | Basis for dating: intrinsic. The inscription is dated on the full moon day of Vesak in the year following the forty-sixth of King Siri San̆gbō Śrī Parākrama Bāhu VI. This king ascended to the throne in 1412 A.D. Accordingly, the date of the grant – the full moon of Vesak in his forty-seventh year – fell in April 1458. |
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| Description | Letter size not reported. Sinhalese script of the fifteenth century A.D. |
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| Description | Campus dimensions not reported. 20 lines engraved on the surface of a rock within an incised rectangular frame. |
| Decoration | The inscription is enclosed on three sides by a rectangular frame; above the frame are the sun and moon, a hammer and an anvil, while to the left side of the frame are a hammer, an anvil and a pair of pincers in the upper half, and a crow and a dog in the lower. |
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| References | Edited and translated by H. W. Codrington in Epigraphia Zeylanica 3 (1928-33) 235–240, no. 24. |
| Add to bibliography | Published in Sinhalese in Viśva Brāhmaṇa vaṁśa viṇiścaya, pp. 81, 82. |
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