Ranawa Pillar Inscription of Dappula IV
The Ranawa Pillar Inscription (Sinhala: රණව ටැම් ලිපිය) is a stone pillar inscription discovered from Ranawa village in Anuradhapura District, Sri Lanka. Presently, the pillar is located in the middle of the Madatugama-Andiyagala road in front of the Ranawa Devurada
Ranrada Viharaya premises, a Buddhist temple site situated in close
proximity to the Jathika Namal Uyana . Pillar
The inscription has been engraved on all eight sides of an octagonal stone pillar. The pillar is about 5.5 feet tall and each side of it has a width ranging between 6-6.5 inches (Ranawella, 2004). The writing has been executed between parallel horizontal lines and as a whole, it contains 209 lines of writing with about 800 letters (Ranawella, 2004). In the lengthwise, this inscription is only second to the Badulla Pillar Inscription of King Udaya IV [(946-954 A.D.) Ranawella, 2004]. Content
The pillar contains a Sinhala inscription written in the Sinhala scripts of the first half of the 10th century (Ranawella…
