Siddham. The Asian Inscription Database | IN03140 Colombo Museum Pillar Inscription of Kassapa IV

The inscription is engraved on all four sides of a quadrangular stone pillar, currently in the stone gallery at the Colombo National Museum. The location where the pillar was found is not recorded. The pillar was broken into two pieces before it arrived at the museum. As a consequence, it was initially treated as two objects and the inscriptions on the fragments were recorded as distinct texts when eye-copies were produced for the Archaeological Survey of Ceylon in 1907 and 1924. However, the connection between the fragments was later recognised and the pieces were joined together. The inscription is dated on the tenth day of the first half of the month of Mändindina (February–March) in the eleventh year of Kassapa IV, referred to here by his biruda Kasub Sirisaṅgbo. Kassapa IV reigned between 898 and 914 A.D. The text records a grant of immunities to an estate which was an endowment of a lying-in-home founded by the Chief Secretary Senal (Sena).

Diplomatic Edition
Critical Edition

Side A

[line 1] Svasti [II*]

[line 2] Siri Lak-

[line 3] [di]v hiṭi si-

[line 4] -ripiṇḍ yasa

[line 5] isirä Ruhu-

[line 6] -ṇ-danavu Ma-

[line 7] -la-maḍulu e-

[line 8] -kājñā ko-

[line 9] -ṭ tamaha-

[line 10] -ṭ piribho-

[line 11] -ga kaḷa Udaya

[line 12] Abhaya ma-

[line 13] -harad-hu so-

[line 14] -hovar Kara

[line 15] -sub Siri-

[line 16] saṅgbo ma-

[line 17] -purmukā e-

[line 18] -ko eka ḷos-

[line 19] vanne Mändi-

[line 20] -ndi [nä] pura da-

[line 21] -savak dava-

[line 22] -s mahāle

[line 23] Senalnāka-

[line 24] -n kärävū ti-

[line 25] -mbirigeṭ

[line 26] mekun tamā

[line 27] dun utur pa-

[line 28] -sä Valviṭ-

[line 29] hi āya vū

[line 30] Gaṇagami-

[line 31] -yehi pama-

[line 32] -ṇu käbäl-

Side B

[line 1] -la(d) ra[d]-

[line 2] kole-

[line 3] -n bahā

[line 4] lū demeḷä

[line 5] käbälla

[line 6] ätuḷuv[ä]

[line 7] pere maha-

[line 8] himaṭ ä-

[line 9] -tuḷä vū me

[line 10] gamaṭ a-

[line 11] -ttāṇi-pa-

[line 12] -rähär den-

[line 13] -naṭ vadāḷe-

[line 14] -yin ektä-

[line 15] -n-samiye-

[line 16] -n ā Mekā-

[line 17] -ppar-vädǟ-

[line 18] -rum Kahǟva

[line 19] Radsivu va-

[line 20] -rä van Mey-

[line 21] kāppar Be-

[line 22] -ndvā (Ve)ḷak-

[line 23] -kā isā .. .. ..

[line 24] -lvä .. .. .. .. ..

[line 25] -ki isā sa-

[line 26] -bhāpati Dā-

[line 27] -puḷā Pirit-

[line 28] -tiradun dava-

[line 29] -sä sabhā-

[line 30] -yen ān-

[line 31] -(nä) yen ā ..

[line 32] Senu isā

Side C

[line 1] Nilavasä

[line 2] (Mä)diyā i-

[line 3] -sā Mahāle

[line 4] [Va]durā Rak-

[line 5] samaṇan

[line 6] varin ā Ku-

[line 7] -ḍasalā Devu

[line 8] isā Deme-

[line 9] -ḷä adhikā-

[line 10] -r[i] Utur Pa-

[line 11] -ṇḍiradun va-

[line 12] -dārmen ā

[line 13] Kolvā Si-

[line 14] -hi ätuḷ [vu]

[line 15] äp me tuv[ā]-

[line 16] -k radakol-

[line 17] samdaruva-

[line 18] -mo ekse-

[line 19] -vä me pärahe-

[line 20] -ra denu ladi [II*] Me

[line 21] gamaṭ raṭla-

[line 22] -d pasladda-

[line 23] -n novadanā ko-

[line 24] -ṭ isā deru-

[line 25] -vanä dekam tä-

[line 26] -n novadnā

[line 27] koṭ isā pi-

[line 28] -yo-vadāran-

[line 29] -nan novadnā

[line 30] koṭ isā

[line 31] gäl mīvun

[line 32] väriyan no

[line 33] gannā ko-

Side D

[line 1] ṭ kirge-

[line 2] -ri gamgo-

[line 3] -n nogannā

[line 4] koṭ dunu-

[line 5] -vā-balatun

[line 6] nova danā koṭ

[line 7] perenāṭṭu

[line 8] novana [no] vad

[line 9] nā isā ani

[line 10] yā käbäli

[line 11] no gannā i-

[line 12] -sā perä ku-

[line 13] -salān piṭa-

[line 14] -t koṭ me

[line 15] gamaṭ me

[line 16] pärähär

[line 17] dunmo [II*]