No. 6. — 1853.] ROCK INSCRIPTION AT GURUGODA. 



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of the wealthy city Sayikandanum, hereby sacrifices to the 

 Weragala Dagaba (Dagabwahanse) the pyramid at Weragala, 

 on the east of this side of Gurugoda Bewuma, on the sonth 

 from this side of Yantan Pallewallewatia Weragala and Pem- 

 purugalla, on the west from this side of the village Belliagama 

 Weragala Lokahettigama Bewuma, on the north from this side 

 of the tank of Waduressa and the stone post of the water 

 reservoir of Giribawe, all the houses, trees, gardens, high lands, 

 and low lands* situated within these four limits, to be 

 possessed, as to all the produce thereof, by Dhammarakkhita 

 Unnanse of Giribawe, his disciples and their successors from 

 generation to generation on condition of performing the 

 Buddhist sacrifices. 



" May the kings, ministers, and other persons who come into 

 this world hereafter, without disturbing or encroaching, endea- 

 vour to obtain glory and nirwdna by increasing the offerings 

 more and more. 



" Should any one dispossess (the priests) of grass, timber, 

 flowers or fruit, he will be born a great pretd."^ 



Note by Honorary Secretary, 1882» 



[Appended is a line for line transcript in Sinhalese (A) and Roman 

 characters (B) of this inscription as recently ( December, 1881) copied, 

 by request, under the direction of C. E. Jayatilaka Hulugala, Rate- 

 mahatmaya of the Vanni Hatpattu in the Kurunegala District, who 

 writes : — "The Korala whom I got to take the copy from the rock 

 tells me the characters are very illegible, and that it was with diffi- 

 culty he deciphered them." The amended translation (C) from the 

 Korala's MS. copy is by B. Gunasekara, Translator to Government.] 



* "Highlands and low lands," i.e., paddy fields and chena land. 

 | A wandering mischievous demon. 



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