OB03060 Poḷonnaruva Häṭa-dā-gē Inside Wall (fragments)

Author: Don Martino de Zilva Wickremasinghe

The Inner Shrine at the Hatadage, Polonnaruwa.

Community: Sri Lanka epigraphy
Uploaded on November 6, 2017
December 16, 2019
IN03080 Poḷonnaruva Häṭa-dā-gē Inside Wall Inscription

Author: Don Martino de Zilva Wickremasinghe

The inscription is engraved on a series of slabs originally built into an inside wall of the so-called Häṭa-dā-gē, ‘the Shrine of Sixty Relics’, at Poḷonnaruva. It was discovered by S. M. Burrows in 1885, along with another inscription in the vestibule of the shrine (IN03079) and one in the adjoining portico (IN03078). Consisting of eight lines, the inscription dates from the reign of Kīrti-Niśśaṅka-Malla (1187-1196 A.D.) and provides a tactfully worded exhortation to Buddhist monks to exercise care in the selection of persons for admission to the priesthood and to desist from doing things contrary to the teaching of the Buddha.

Community: Sri Lanka epigraphy
Uploaded on November 6, 2017
December 16, 2019