Kotagama Tamil Slab Inscription is one of the Tamil inscriptions in Sri Lanka. It is exhibited in the Stone Gallery of the National Museum of Colombo.
Kotagama Tamil Slab Inscription Kotagama Tamil Slab Inscription (Tamil: கோட்டகமைக் கல்வெட்டு; Sinhala: කොටගම දෙමළ සෙල්ලිපිය) is one of the Tamil inscriptions in Sri Lanka . It is now exhibited in the Stone Gallery of the National Museum of Colombo . This inscription is considered important as it reveals some historical facts related to the Arya Cakravarttis of Jaffna. Discovery
The slab was found in Kotagama Viharaya premises located near Rambukkana in Kegalle District (Codrington, 1932). It is said that it was brought to the temple from a high land named Koholan Godella close to the temple (Wijesuriya, 1990). The inscription was later taken to the Colombo Museum in 1892 by H.C.P. Bell (Wijesuriya, 1990). The Record
The inscription has been engraved on a stone slab of about 7 feet 7 inches long, 2 feet 8 inches broad, and 7 inches thick (Wijesuriya, 1990). It consists of five lines and has been written in a form of a poem. The epigraph is in the Tamil language with the Tamil scripts of the mid-14th century A.D. (Pathma…