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 person named Niṭalaviṭiya Sivayi, son of Raṭiya Sumanaya, deposited twenty kahāpaṇas for the benefit of the Devagiri vihara.
IN03136 is engraved immediately above the present record and appears from the palaeography to belong to the same period.
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| Inscription ID | IN03137 |
| Title | Labuäṭabän̆digala Rock Inscription 2 |
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| Parent Object | OB03112 |
| Related Inscriptions | IN03136 |
| Responsibility | |
| Author | Senarath Paranavitana |
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| Language | සිංහල |
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| Topic | records that a person named Niṭalaviṭiya Sivayi, son of Raṭiya Sumanaya, deposited twenty kahāpaṇas for the benefit of the Devagiri vihara |
| Date: | |
| Min | 400 |
| Max | 500 |
| Comment | Basis for dating: palaeography. |
| Hand | |
| Letter size | 7.62 cm |
| Description | Letters measure three inches (7.62 cm) on average in height. |
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| Width | 182.88 |
| Height | 45.72 |
| Description | 3 lines engraved on the rough surface of a rock. It is in a bad state of preservation with more than half of the letters in the third line being partly worn and at least one line at the end completely obliterated. |
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| Bibliography | |
| 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 | IN03136 is engraved immediately above the present record and appears from the palaeography to belong to the same period. |