IN03225 Timbirivava Rock Inscription 3

This inscription is engraved on a rock to the north of the ruined stupa at an ancient site in the forest about three miles south of Maradanmaḍuva, lying about half a mile off the route to Ikirigallǟva. Two other inscriptions are engraved on the same rock (IN03223 and IN03224). The extensive ruins at this site were discovered by the Wild Life Department in 1953. At that time, the site had no name but it now referred to as Tim̆biriväva after an abandoned and breached tank in the vicinity. As head of the Wild Life Department, C. W. Nicholas reported the discovery to the Archaeological Department, whose officers were despatched to survey the inscriptions (see Appendix II of the Administration Report for 1954, nos. 41, 42 and 43). The present inscription records that an unnamed individual gave a hundred kahavaṇas to secure the release from slavery of Aba, his younger brother. It is not dated but the script and language conform to standards familiar in records of the fifth to sixth centuries.