Kadirana Copper Plate Grant Kadirana Copper-Plate Grant , also known as Kadirana Thamba Sannasa of Vijayabahu VI (Sinhala: හයවන විජයබාහු රජුගේ කදිරාන තඹ සන්නස), is a copper inscription discovered in Negombo in Gampaha District, Sri Lanka. It is presently on the display at Colombo National Museum .
Discovery The copper plate was discovered underground, in the Kadirana Cinnamon Plantation near Negombo, by some women while digging edible roots (DeZoysa, 1873). Content It bears no date but has been written in Sinhala characters resembling those of the Devinuwara Inscription (Paranavitana, 1961). It records a grant made to a Brahmin named Venrasu Konda Perumal on the fifteenth day of the dark half of the month of Poson (June-July) in the ninth year (the succeeding year to the eighth) of the Emperor Sirisangabo Sri Vijayabahu, on the occasion of a solar eclipse (DeZoysa, 1873; Paranavitana, 1961). The king mentioned here has been identified as Vijayabahu VI (1509-1521 A.D.) of the Kotte Kingdom (Rohanadeera, 2007). On the…
