Tamil Pillar Inscription of Vijayabahu VI (Colombo National Museum)

Tamil Pillar Inscription of Vijayabahu VI (Colombo National Museum)

Tamil Pillar Inscription of the reign of Vijayabahu VI is one of Tamil Inscriptions in Sri Lanka . It is presently exhibited at the outside passage that leads to the Stone Gallery of the National Museum of Colombo . The inscription has been engraved on the capital of a stone pillar which could be a pillar that was used to support a hall of a temple probably belonging to the Kotte Period (Pathmanathan, 2005). The text of the inscription is engraved on eight lines within a rectangular frame that measures 1ft. 3 in. by 11 in. (Pathmanathan, 2005). Discovery This pillar along with a large number of ruins was discovered in a culvert near the 6th-mile post on the Colombo-Kandy road (Pearson, 1930). A brief account regarding this discovery was published in the " Ceylon Daily News " dated 23 May 1930 (Pearson, 1930). J. Pearson who examined this site with Senarath Paranavitana (the then Epigraphical Assistant) wrote a short note about these findings to the " Journal of the Ceylon Bran…