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.
Top-Left Corner
I am the Ǟpā.
I am Joti Siṭāṇa
Main Text
On the full moon day of Vesak in the year following the forty-sixth of His Majesty the Sovereign lord Siri San̆gabo Śrī Parākrama Bāhu in the presence of Dantoṭa–vature Devan and Divāṇavatte Laṁkā Adhikārin this document (granting) maintenance land was given, whereby out of the village land belonging to Dumbara the fields in Maḍavaḷa, of six amunams sowing extent, and the places appertaining thereto including the village revenue, plantations and jungle were granted as an inheritance to the smith Paramaṇāyā of Siddāvulla, it being provided that they should remain so long as the sun and moon exist as an heritable possession for his son Suriyā, and (further) it being laid down that at no time to come should any king, sub-king, great officer, and the like, or any one of any degree whatsoever, cause trouble or disturbance by word or deed. To which effect (this) is the stone record cut in the presence of the ten Aghampaḍis of Dumbara.