OB03026 Anuradhapura Slab of Mahinda IV

Author: Don Martino de Zilva Wickremasinghe

Community: Sri Lanka epigraphy
Uploaded on November 6, 2017
November 12, 2019
IN03031 Anuradhapura Slab Inscription of Mahinda IV

Author: Don Martino de Zilva Wickremasinghe

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.

Community: Sri Lanka epigraphy
Uploaded on November 6, 2017
November 12, 2019
Donative inscription (INNAG0009) from Pauni on stupa railing pillar (OBNAG0009)

Author: Shantaram Bhalchandra Deo and Jagat Pati Joshi

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

Community: Vidarbha epigraphy
Uploaded on November 6, 2017
November 11, 2019
IN03028 Maha-Ratmale Rock Inscription

Author: Don Martino de Zilva Wickremasinghe

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.

Community: Sri Lanka epigraphy
Uploaded on November 6, 2017
November 11, 2019
OB03022 Anuradhapura Slab of Kassapa V

Author: Don Martino de Zilva Wickremasinghe

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Abhayagiri vihara, Anuradhapura

Community: Sri Lanka epigraphy
Uploaded on November 6, 2017
November 11, 2019
IN03027 Anuradhapura Slab Inscription of Kassapa V

Author: Don Martino de Zilva Wickremasinghe

Community: Sri Lanka epigraphy
Uploaded on November 6, 2017
November 11, 2019
Inscription (INNAG0010) mentioning Mucalinda on stupa railing pillar (OBNAG0009) from Pauni

Author: Shantaram Bhalchandra Deo and Jagat Pati Joshi

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

Community: Vidarbha epigraphy
Uploaded on November 6, 2017
November 10, 2019
Pauni inscription of Naga (INNAG0008) on stupa railing pillar

Author: Shantaram Bhalchandra Deo and Jagat Pati Joshi

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

Community: Vidarbha epigraphy
Uploaded on November 6, 2017
November 10, 2019
INIG1349 Inscription of VS 1349

Author: Michael WILLIS

INIG1349 [Provenance not recorded, possibly from Morena district]. On a stone slab. 17 lines, nāgarī, corrupt Sanskrit. Mentions the construction of a tank by mahatā Jaitasiṁha of Lodhā family when Cāhamāna Hamīradeva was ruling Śakambara. Now in the collection of the Archaeological Museum, Gwalior.

Uploaded on November 6, 2017
November 6, 2019
INIG1348c Kolāras Inscription of VS 1348c

Author: M. B. Garde

INIG1348c āṣāḍha badi 11, Kolāras (Shivpuri). On a satī stone. 3 lines, nāgarī, Sanskrit. Mentions a satī, apparently of the queen of Govindarāja.

Uploaded on November 6, 2017
November 6, 2019