The inscription is engraved on both sides of a stone slab, now set up near the Buddhist temple at Dädigama (Dedigama) in Kegalle District. The slab has been broken into two fragments and repaired. The inscription was first recorded and translated by H. C. P. Bell in 1892. It is dated on the thirteenth day of the waxing moon in the month of Poson in the ninth year of Bhuvanekabāhu (the sixth of that name), whose reign began around 1470, although the precise year remains a matter of uncertainty. The text proclaims a grant of amnesty, by the king, to the inhabitants of the Four Kōraḷas who had recently rebelled against their sovereign and had just then been reduced to subjection.
First edited and translated by H. C. P. Bell in his Report on the Kǟgalla District (1892, pp. 83–5 and plate facing p. 80). An improved and corrected edition and translation were later published by S. Paranavitana in Epigraphia Zeylanica 3 (1928-33) 278–286, no. 29.
Epigraphia Zeylanica 3 (1928-33) 278–286, no. 29