Ganagamiya Pillar Inscription of Kassapa IV Ganagamiya Pillar Inscription of King Kassapa IV (Sinhala: සිව්වන කාශ්යප රජුගේ ගණගමිය ටැම් ලිපිය) is presently on the display at the Inscription Gallery of Colombo National Museum , Sri Lanka. Discovery The exact provenance of this inscription is not known (Ranawella, 2005). However, according to its content, this record has a link with a village named Ganagamiya situated in a region named Valpita, a place probably situated north of Anuradhapura (Ranawella, 2005). The pillar had been broken into two fragments when it was brought to the Colombo Museum (Paranavitana, 1933). As they were treated as two different inscriptions by the museum, the eye-copies and the estampages of them were prepared in 1907 and 1924 (Paranavitana, 1933). However, after the correct identification, the fragments were joined together and numbered as a single inscription. The pillar The pillar is 7 feet tall and the width of each side is 8 inches (Paranavitana, 1933; Ranawella, 2005). It contains a Sinhala inscrip…
