Five inscriptions in the Sinhalese script of about the sixth century are incised on a rock at the site of an ancient monastery at Galkäṭiyāgama, four miles south-west of Polpiṭigama, in the Hiriyāla Hatpattu, Kuruṇǟgala District. Each inscription refers to a named individual and states that he settled his debts and freed himself slavery. The inscriptions have been engraved close to each other, three of them on the left side of the inscribed area and two on the right.
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| Inscription ID | IN03219 |
| Title | Galkäṭyāgama Rock Inscriptions |
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| Parent Object | OB03175 |
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| Author | Senarath Paranavitana |
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| Language | සිංහල |
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| Topic | record that various named individuals settled their debts and freed themselves from slavery |
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| Min | 500 |
| Max | 600 |
| Comment | The inscriptions can be dated to around the sixth century on palaeographic grounds. |
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| Description | Letter size not reported. Sinhalese script of about the sixth century. |
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| Description | Campus dimensions not reported. Five inscriptions engraved on the surface of a rock. The inscriptions have been engraved close to each other, three of them on the left side of the inscribed area and two on the right. The top-left (No. 1) and middle-left (No. 2) inscriptions have five lines, while the bottom-left (No. 3) and bottom-right (No. 4) have only three. The top-right inscription (No. 5) has five lines and is written in much larger letters than the others. Some of the letters of this last record have been worn away. |
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| References | Included as No. 101 in the List of Inscriptions forming Appendix F of H. C. P. Bell’s Archaeological Survey of Ceylon Annual Report for 1911–12, p. 118. Also noticed by C. W. Nicholas in ‘Historical Topography of Ancient and Medieval Ceylon’, Journal of the Ceylon Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, New Series, 6, Special Number (1963), p. 100. Edited and translated in Paranavitana (1962): 3–8, B. |
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