The inscription is engraved on the rock wall of a cave situated about 400 feet to the south-west of the stupa in the ruined monastery at Kalupokuṇa or Kaludiyapokuṇa, which lies on the slopes of a range of hills known as Eravalagala, about a mile and a half to the south-east of Kum̆bukkan̆danvaḷa, in the Vagapaṇaha Pallēsiya Pattu of the Mātaḷē District. The text contains sixty-seven lines, divided into five columns of unequal dimensions. It is dated on the fifth day of the bright half of the lunar month Poson in the eighth year of King Sirisaṅgbo. This biruda was used by a number of kings and it is not possible to identify definitively which one is intended here. However, on palaeographic grounds, Senarath Paranavitana suggests that the monarch in question may be Sena II (r. 866–901) or Kassapa IV (r. 912–929), more probably the former.

 

The inscription records the gifts made by different individuals for providing food to the inmates of the Dakiṇigiri monastery. The major part of the record is concerned with the gift of a person named Daḷanā, who invested twenty-three kaḷan̆das of gold for the daily supply of two aḍmanā of rice and one aḍmanā of curd and who stipulated that, in the event of dissension among the inmates of the of the monastery, the food intended for them should be thrown to crows and dogs. Evidently, Daḷanā was of opinion that if the members of the saṅgha quarrelled amongst themselves, they were less worthy of the offerings of the pious than such animals.

Column A
[line 1] Sirisaṅgbo-
[line 2] -y mapurmukā [do-
[line 3] -ḷo]s-vanne Po-
[line 4] -sonä pura visenī da-
[line 5] -vas Daḷanāmi Daki-
[line 6] -ṇigiri-veherä ma-
[line 7] -ha-saṅgnat la-
[line 8] -hā-bataṭ tevisi
[line 9] kaḷandak ran dī da-
[line 10] -vas patā maha-bund-
[line 11] -nen de⸗[ya]ḍmanāk
[line 12] sāle bat isā mu-
[line 13] -tpanin pere-bund-
[line 14] -nen ek⸗aḍ manāk
[line 15] dihi ätuḷ ko-
[line 16] -ṭ hir-sand ä-
[line 17] -ti tāk sändä pava-
[line 18] -tnā isā sāl
Column B
[line 1] nodī batge
[line 2] pisä bat de-
[line 3] -nu isā veherä
[line 4] viyagurak äta
[line 5] me bat kavuḍu-
[line 6] ballanaṭ o-
[line 7] -nā isā me vi-
[line 8] -bangha kaḷa kene-
[line 9] -kun Maha-mete-sa-
[line 10] -mmā-Sambudun do-
[line 11] -rin yat at no
[line 12] näṅgiya henu
[line 13] koṭ Daḷanāmi me
[line 14] bat dinmiyi [II*]
[line 15] Sīmi mamad me
[line 16] karaṇayehi gi-
[line 17] visā batak dinmiyi [II*]
Column C
[line 1] Me karaṇaye-
[line 2] -hi givisä
[line 3] Koṭgam
[line 4] S(ī)sen
[line 5] vat-himi-
[line 6] -yange
[line 7] lahā-bata-
[line 8] -k isā [II*]
[line 9] Me karaṇaye-
[line 10] -hi givisä
[line 11] Kaḷi Māḍabi-
[line 12] -yan bata-
[line 13] -k isā [II*] Me ka-
[line 14] -raṇayen äg
[line 15] Sumeyur vat-hi-
[line 16] -miyan batak isā
[line 17] Kalalväli Udahi
[line 18] batak isā [II*] Va-
[line 19] -durā Araksamaṇa-
[line 20] -n mǟṇiyan lahā-
[line 21] batak isā [II*]
Column D
[line 1] Me kara-
[line 2] -ṇa-
[line 3] -yehi
[line 4] givisä
[line 5] Ädur va-
[line 6] t-himi
Column E
[line 1] (me ka)
[line 2] -ya-
[line 3] -n ba-
[line 4] -tak
[line 5] isā [II*]
Column A
[line 1] Sirisaṅgbo-
[line 2] -y mapurmukā [do-
[line 3] -ḷo]s-vanne Po-
[line 4] -sonä pura visenī da-
[line 5] -vas Daḷanāmi Daki-
[line 6] -ṇigiri-veherä ma-
[line 7] -ha-saṅgnat la-
[line 8] -hā-bataṭ tevisi
[line 9] kaḷandak ran dī da-
[line 10] -vas patā maha-bund-
[line 11] -nen de⸗[ya]ḍmanāk
[line 12] sāle bat isā mu-
[line 13] -tpanin pere-bund-
[line 14] -nen ek⸗aḍ manāk
[line 15] dihi ätuḷ ko-
[line 16] -ṭ hir-sand ä-
[line 17] -ti tāk sändä pava-
[line 18] -tnā isā sāl
Column B
[line 1] nodī batge
[line 2] pisä bat de-
[line 3] -nu isā veherä
[line 4] viyagurak äta
[line 5] me bat kavuḍu-
[line 6] ballanaṭ o-
[line 7] -nā isā me vi-
[line 8] -bangha kaḷa kene-
[line 9] -kun Maha-mete-sa-
[line 10] -mmā-Sambudun do-
[line 11] -rin yat at no
[line 12] näṅgiya henu
[line 13] koṭ Daḷanāmi me
[line 14] bat dinmiyi [II*]
[line 15] Sīmi mamad me
[line 16] karaṇayehi gi-
[line 17] visā batak dinmiyi [II*]
Column C
[line 1] Me karaṇaye-
[line 2] -hi givisä
[line 3] Koṭgam
[line 4] S(ī)sen
[line 5] vat-himi-
[line 6] -yange
[line 7] lahā-bata-
[line 8] -k isā [II*]
[line 9] Me karaṇaye-
[line 10] -hi givisä
[line 11] Kaḷi Māḍabi-
[line 12] -yan bata-
[line 13] -k isā [II*] Me ka-
[line 14] -raṇayen äg
[line 15] Sumeyur vat-hi-
[line 16] -miyan batak isā
[line 17] Kalalväli Udahi
[line 18] batak isā [II*] Va-
[line 19] -durā Araksamaṇa-
[line 20] -n mǟṇiyan lahā-
[line 21] batak isā [II*]
Column D
[line 1] Me kara-
[line 2] -ṇa-
[line 3] -yehi
[line 4] givisä
[line 5] Ädur va-
[line 6] t-himi
Column E
[line 1] (me ka)
[line 2] -ya-
[line 3] -n ba-
[line 4] -tak
[line 5] isā [II*]