Ruwanmaduwa Fragmentary Pillar Inscription of Kassapa IV

Ruwanmaduwa Fragmentary Pillar Inscription of Kassapa IV
Ruwanmaduwa Pillar Inscription (Sinhala: සිව්වන කාශ්‍යප රජුගේ රුවන්මඩු ටැම් ලිපි කැබැල්ල) is a fragmentary stone inscription discovered from Ruwanmaduwa in Vavuniya District, Sri Lanka. It is presently on the display in the Stone Gallery of the  Colombo National Museum . The pillar The inscription has been engraved on all four sides of a stone pillar of which only the upper half is remaining today. The remaining part is about 3 feet tall and each side of it is about 9 inches wide (Ranawella, 2005). Eight lines of writing are found on each face of the pillar. Content The pillar contains a Sinhala inscription written in the Sinhala scripts of the early 10th century A.D. (Ranawella, 2005) The inscription is dated in the 6th regnal year of a king styled Sirisangbo Mapurmuka who, according to scholars, is King Kassapa IV [(898-914 A.D.) Ranawella, 2005]. The purpose of erecting the inscription was to register a grant of immunities made in favour of a village named Kalivan situated in Mata-bim…