Extremely rare, largest inscription found on hills of Polonnaruwa

POLONARUWA (Daily Mirror) - The Polonnaruwa Archeology Office said today that they had discovered an extremely rare and the largest inscription ever found in Sri Lanka.

They said the inscription was found on the hills of Polonnaruwa's historic Dimbulagala Aranya Senasana.

This extremely rare document was discovered by officers attached to the Inscriptions Section of the Archeology Department Head Office and the Polonnaruwa Archaeological Survey Team.

In a letter sent by Polonnaruwa Archeology Department Assistant Director M.G. Ratnapala to Dimbulagala Aranya Senasanadhipa, Ven. Dimbulagala Rahulalankara Thera, stated that it will take more than a month to copy the inscription.

Dimbulagala Aranya Senasanadhipa Ven. Dimbulagala Rahulalankara Thera said the team of relevant officers and workers of the Archeology Department has been staying on the Dimbulagala mountain range and had started copying the inscription on October 26.

The inscription is about 45 feet long and 18 feet high, and it is not possible to exactly say to which era this inscription belongs to. Ven. Rahulalankara Thera also mentioned that it will take another month for the archaeologists to make an official announcement about it.

After the completion of the transcription work, the Archeology Department is planning to conserve and display the most rare and largest document in Sri Lanka, so it can be viewed by future generations. (Nimal Jayarathne - Manampitiya)