This inscription is cut into the rock at the Gaḍalādeṇiya Vihārē, immediately below the record of the monk Dharmmakīrtti (IN03166), the founder of the vihara. The Gaḍalādeṇiya Vihārē is situated in Pilimathalawa, near Kandy. The present inscription is dated in the eighth year of Sēnāsammata Vikrama Bāhu cakravartti, who was the founder of Kandy as a capital and reigned from 1469 until 1511 A.D. The text promises that no loss of life shall be inflicted on the people of certain provinces named and declares that the heriot or maḷāraya of those who have fallen in warfare or in the elephant hunt shall, in the absence of an heir, be devoted to the restoration of vihārēs in disrepair.
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| Inscription ID | IN03154 |
| Title | Gaḍalādeṇiya Rock Inscription of Sēnāsammata Vikrama Bāhu |
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| Parent Object | OB03127 |
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| Author | H. W. Codrington |
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| Language | සිංහල |
| Reigning monarch | Sēnāsammata Vikrama Bāhu |
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| Topic | promises that no loss of life shall be inflicted on the people of certain provinces named and declares that the heriot or maḷāraya of those who have fallen in warfare or in the elephant hunt shall, in the absence of an heir, be devoted to the restoration of vihārēs in disrepair |
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| Min | 1476 |
| Max | 1477 |
| Comment | The present inscription is dated in the eighth year of Sēnāsammata Vikrama Bāhu cakravartti, who was the founder of Kandy as a capital and reigned from 1469 until 1511 A.D. |
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| Description | Letter size not reported. Sinhalese script anterior to the middle of the sixteenth century. |
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| Description | Campus dimensions not reported. 13 lines engraved on a rock at the Gaḍalādeṇiya Vihārē, immediately below the record of the monk Dharmmakīrtti (IN03166), the founder of the vihara. It is followed by another, slightly later inscription, dated in the Buddhist year 2054 (1511 A.D.). |
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| References | Edited and translated by H. W. Codrington in Epigraphia Zeylanica 4 (1934–41): 8–15, no. 2. |
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