This inscription is one of three lengthy epigraphs engraved on the rock to the south of the Buddhist shrine of Laṅkātilaka in the village of Rabbēgomuwa in Uḍunuvara, Kandy District. Two extensive areas on the surface of the rock are covered with deeply and carefully engraved writing. An inscription of forty-six lines in Tamil (IN03214) is engraved on the lower stretch of the rock. The upper stretch contains two Sinhalese inscriptions arranged one above the other. The top record is dated in the reign of Bhuvanikabāhu IV of Gaṁpaḷa (IN03212) and the bottom record is from the reign of his successor, Vikramabāhu III. The second of these two records is dealt with here. It registers the granting of two villages – Paṭṭiyegama and Rabbogamu – to the monastery at Laṅkātilaka by the king and his Äpā (heir-apparent). The inscription is dated on the tenth day of the waxing moon in the month of Unduvap in the third year of the king’s reign. Vikramabāhu III reigned from 1357 to 1374, making the date of this inscription November-December 1359. Another version of the present inscription is engraved on a set of copper plates preserved inside the Laṅkātilaka temple (IN03216).
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Inscription ID | IN03213 |
Title | Laṅkātilaka Rock Inscription of Vikramabāhu III |
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Parent Object | OB03170 |
Related Inscriptions | IN03212 IN03214 |
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Author | Senarath Paranavitana |
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Language | සිංහල |
Reigning monarch | Sirisaṅgabo Śrī Vikramabāhu (Vikramabāhu III) |
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Topic | records the granting of two villages – Paṭṭiyegama and Rabbogamu – to the monastery at Laṅkātilaka by king Vikramabāhu III and his Äpā (heir-apparent) |
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Min | 1359 |
Max | 1359 |
Comment | The inscription is dated on the tenth day of the waxing moon in the month of Unduvap in the third year of Vikramabāhu III, referred to here as Sirisaṅgabo Śrī Vikramabāhu. This king reigned from 1357 to 1374, making the date of this inscription November-December 1359. |
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Letter size | 7.62 cm |
Description | The letters range in size between 2½ and 3 inches (6.35 to 7.62 cm). |
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Width | 789.94 |
Height | 388.62 |
Description | 7 lines engraved on the surface of a large rock, immediately below IN03212. About eighteen letters in line 5 and twelve letters in line 6 are illegible due to the weathering of the rock. The dimensions given above are for the combined area covered by IN03212 and the present inscription. |
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References | Edited and translated in Paranavitana (1960): 1–45. |
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