SIDDHAṂ IN03002 : Rock inscription at Vihāregala (version 1.0)

Rock inscription at Vihāregala belonging to the time of Saba.

E.Z., vol.3, part 3, n°15, 1930, pp.163-169 The site is located on an expanse of low, flat rocks skirting the southern end of a range of hills known as Puliyankuḷam, about 2,5 miles to the north-west of Galenbiňdunuväva in the North Central Province, to the east of he village named Mahakälǟgama, and 2 miles to the south of Pahala Kayināṭṭama (n°14). The two inscriptions are written in a southern variety of Brāhmī alphabet of the 1st/2nd century A.D. Inscription n°1 is four lines long and belongs to the reign of a king named Saba, identified with Subha (118-124 A.D.) of the Mahāvaṁsa. The contents tell that the king granted a tank named Uppaladoṇika to the monks of the Ekadvāra monastery. Inscription n°2 is engraved immediately below the first one. The two records are separated from each other by a period of about half a century. It is of Gajabāhu Gāmaṇī Abhaya. It tells us tha the king re-granted the Uppaladoṇika tank to the Ekadvāra monastery. The ruins at Vihāregala must be the remains of this monastery.

维赫拉加拉（Vihāregala）的岩石铭文，年代属于萨巴（Saba）统治时期。
《E.Z.》第3卷第3分册第15号，1930年，第163-169页。该遗址位于一片低矮平坦的岩石地带，毗邻被称为普利扬库拉姆（Puliyankuḷam）的丘陵山脉南端；它北距中北省（North Central Province）的加伦宾杜努瓦瓦（Galenbiňdunuväva）约2.5英里，东邻马哈拉卡拉加马（Mahakälǟgama）村，南距帕哈拉卡亚纳塔马（Pahala Kayināṭṭama，即第14号铭文）2英里。两处铭文均采用公元1至2世纪的南婆罗米文（Brāhmī alphabet）书写。1号铭文共四行，属于萨巴国王的统治时期，该萨巴即《大史》（Mahāvaṁsa）中的苏巴（Subha，公元118-124年）。铭文内容记载，该国王将乌帕拉多尼卡（Uppaladoṇika）水库赐予埃克德瓦拉（Ekadvāra）寺院的僧侣。2号铭文即刻镌刻于1号铭文下方。两处铭文的镌刻时间间隔约半个世纪，其所属国王为伽加巴胡·加马尼·阿跋耶（Gajabāhu Gāmaṇī Abhaya）。铭文记载，该国王将乌帕拉多尼卡水库再次赐予埃克德瓦拉寺院。维赫拉加拉遗址的残存建筑，应为该寺院的遗迹。