Ayitigeväva

The inscription was examined in 1892 by Bell and Wickremasinghe at Ayitigeväva, a small hamlet in Kum̆bukväva Tulāna in the Kuñcuṭṭu Kōrole, about twenty-five miles north-north-east of Anurādhapura. Engraved on all four sides of a stone pillar, it consists of 65 lines in the Sinhalese alphabet of the latter half of the 10th century A.D. The inscription is dated to the fifth year of Abhā Salamevan’s reign and records a grant of immunities to a certain plot of ground, five payalas in extent, belonging to Tisaram nunnery built on the ‘Auspicious High Street’ by the Commander-in-Chief Sēna. Wickremasinghe suggests that the biruda Abhā Salamevan refers in this instance to Kassapa V.