OB03024 Perimiyankulam Rock

Author: Don Martino de Zilva Wickremasinghe

Community: Sri Lanka epigraphy
Uploaded on November 6, 2017
November 11, 2019
IN03029 Perimiyankulam Rock Inscription

Author: Don Martino de Zilva Wickremasinghe

The inscription was found near Perimiyankulam or Perumäiyaṉ-kuḷam, “the tank of the great personage”, or Perumäiyāṉa-kuḷam, “the great tank”, situated on the path to Galkaḍawala, one and a half miles north of the Sacred Bōdhi-tree at Anurādhapura. Müller (1883: 27) describes the inscription as “on a flat rock by the side of a hollowed-out cave”. There are many stone pillars near the place, which is north-west of the Laṅkārāmaya. The inscription is on the whole very well preserved. It consists of 4 lines recording a gift of revenue, derived from water supply in Palinakaraka tank in Tihalaka-karisa and in Ketavalika tank at Amanaratana, to a thēra named Majibuka (or -bika) for looking after certain dilapidated buildings at Patnagala belonging to the architect Ayisayi, son of Batakaya, keeper of the royal store.

Community: Sri Lanka epigraphy
Uploaded on November 6, 2017
November 11, 2019