Akurugoda Pillar Inscription is a lithic record discovered at the urban mound of Akurugoda. It has been engraved on two faces of an octagonal pillar.
Akurugoda Pillar Inscription Akurugoda Pillar Inscription (Sinhala: අකුරුගොඩ ටැම් ලිපිය) is a lithic record discovered at the urban mound of Akurugoda in Tissamaharama, in Hambantota District, Sri Lanka. It bears a strong resemblance to the column standing upright in the vicinity of the northern porch of Ruwanweliseya (Uduwara, 1990). The Pillar The record has been engraved on two faces of an octagonal granite pillar about 30 feet tall (Abeyawardana, 2004; Paranavitana, 2001). It was brought to the attention of scholars for the first time in 1884 by H. Parker and then by E. R. Ayrton (Paranavitana, 2001; Parker, 1884). After Ayrton, the pillar itself was buried again and its exact location remained unknown to archaeologists until 1951 (Paranavitana, 2001). The pillar is said to have been broken into two fragments when it was rediscovered by the Archaeological Department (Abeyawardana, 2004). In 1973, the pillar was retrieved and the base was underpinned with concrete (Uduwara, 1990). The excavations in 1951 reveale…
