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.

Epigraphia Zeylanica
Paranavitana, S. (1928-33). ‘No. 26. Two Rock-Inscriptions from Labuäṭabän̆digala,’ Epigraphia Zeylanica 3, p. 252.

Hail! Niṭalaviṭiya Sivayi, the son of Raṭiya Sumanaya, caused to be deposited and gave twenty kahavaṇas to the monastery of Devagiri (for the purpose of conducting) the sacred (vassa festival) during the coming years . . .

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