Material: Stone / unspecified

Pauni (पवनी Bhandārā district) Maharashtra. Stūpa site with modern temple.

Pauni (पवनी Bhandārā district) Maharashtra. Donative Inscription.

The inscription of 49 lines is written in the same style and language than the two tablets of Mihintale (IN3030). It was engraved just a few months later than those ones, during the reign of the king Mahinda IV (975-91 A.D.). It records rules for the administration of certain lands and villages. It also contains an important mention of the temple of the Buddha’s ‘Tooth-relic’ (Daḷ-dā-ge), which enabled the identification of this temple, rebuilt by Mahinda IV in the centre of the town, as the ruined site known as the Daḷadā Māligāva, situated south-east of the Thūparāma dāgäba.

Pauni (पौनि). Donative inscription (INNAG0009) on stūpa railing pillar (OBNAG0009)

The inscription is situated in the ruins of an ancient site, close by the Ratmale wewa, south-west from Anurādhapura, not far from the Kurunegala Road. Four lines are engraved on a large slab rock. The inscription mentions three names of kings: Devānapiya Tisa-maharaja, Devānapiya Puṭikaṇa Gamiṇi Abhaya-maharaja, Devānapiya Naka-maharaja. These have been identified by Goldschmidt and Müller as the kings Vaṅkanāsika Tissa, Gaja-bāhu and Mahallaka Nāga of the Mahāvaṁsa. The inscription records the donation from the king Mahallaka Nāga (circa A.D. 135-141) of gruel, boiled rice, undergarments and silk outer garments for the Vassa ceremony to 20 monks at Vihirabijaka and at Muṭigulika and Parivataka monasteries.

Abhayagiri vihara, Anuradhapura

Pauni (पौनि) stūpa railing pillar (OBNAG0009) with inscription (INNAG0010) mentioning the nāga Mucalinda

Pauni (Bhandārā district, Maharashtra), stūpa railing pillar inscription (INNAG0008) of Nāga