The inscription is engraved on the surface of the rock a few yards to the south of the ruined stupa at Labuäṭän̆digala, about one and a half miles to the north-east of Moraväva (Morawewa, 8.5897, 80.8352), a village in the Kalpē Kōraḷē of the North-Central Province. It was first recorded for scholarship by H. C. P. Bell in 1892. The inscription does include a date but may be attributed to the basis of palaeography to sometime around the fifth century A.D. It records that a certain individual named Sirinakayi deposited one hundred kahāpaṇas, the interest accruing from which was to be given to the monks of the Devagiri monastery for defraying the expenses connected with the vassa festival. Devagiri Vihāra was evidently the name of the monastery which existed on the rock in ancient times.
IN03137 is engraved immediately below the present record and appears from the palaeography to belong to the same period.
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| Inscription ID | IN03136 |
| Title | Labuäṭabän̆digala Rock Inscription 1 |
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| Parent Object | OB03112 |
| Related Inscriptions | IN03137 |
| Responsibility | |
| Author | Senarath Paranavitana |
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| Language | සිංහල |
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| Topic | records that a certain individual named Sirinakayi deposited one hundred kahāpaṇas, the interest accruing from which was to be given to the monks of the Devagiri monastery for defraying the expenses connected with the vassa festival |
| Date: | |
| Min | 400 |
| Max | 500 |
| Comment | Basis for dating: palaeography. |
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| Letter size | 7.62 cm |
| Description | Letters measure three inches (7.62 cm) on average in height, excepting the last sixteen of the fourth line and those of the fifth, which are about two inches (5.08 cm) in height. |
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| Width | 182.88 |
| Height | 55.88 |
| Description | Campus dimensions approximate. 5 lines boldly engraved on the rough surface of a rock. About six letters of the first line and three of the second are completely effaced and some letters seem to be missing at the beginning and end of the last line. The word siddham is written to the left, somewhat apart from the main inscription. |
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| References | Edited and translated by S. Paranavitana in Epigraphia Zeylanica 3 (1928-33) 247–253, no. 26. |
| Add to bibliography | An eye-copy was prepared under the direction of H. C. P. Bell in 1892, and the inscription was included in the list of inscriptions copied in the Annual Report of the Archaeological Survey of Ceylon for that year. |
| Misc notes | IN03137 is engraved immediately below the present record and appears from the palaeography to belong to the same period. |