Mediaeval Sinhalese Art c10.s4.2.4

c10.s4.2.4

His Majesty Śrī Rājādhi Rāja, who surpassed all other kings in dignity and possessed a virtue that attracts all as bees to flowers, sitting on a golden throne in the Audience Hall under a pearl canopy in the city of Seṅkaḍapura, surrounded like Śakra by all his ministers, on Thursday, the seventh day of the increasing moon of the month of Vesak, in the year of Śaka 1708 (A.D. 1786), called Parabave, granted to the said temple the lands above-mentioned, written on a copper Sannasa to be possessed uninterruptedly as long as Buddhism lasts. Any one who shall take for his own use even a blade of grass, fuel, flower, or fruit which belongs to Buddha shall be born as a pretaya” (Lawrie’s Gazetteer, p. 138).