Original Text
1 (A) iyaṁ dhaṁma-lipī Khepi[ṁ]galasi pavatasi Devānaṁpiyena Piyadasinā lājinā likhāpitā (B) hida no kichi jīvaṁ ālabhi[t]u pajohitaviye
2 (C) no pi ca samāje kaṭaviye (D) bāhukaṁ hi dosaṁ samājasa drakhati Devānaṁpiye Piyadasī lājā (E) athi pi cu ekatiyā samājā sādhu-matā Devānaṁpiyasa
3 Piyadrasine lājine (F) puluvaṁ mahā[nasa]si Devānaṁpiyasa Piyadasine lājine anudivasaṁ bah[ū]ni pāna-sata-sah[a]sāni ālabhiyisu sūpa[th]āye
4 (G) se aja adā iyaṁ dhaṁma-lipī likhitā tiṁni yeva pānāni āla[ṁ]bhiyaṁti duve majūlā eke mige se pi cu mige no dhuvaṁ (H) etāni pi cu tiṁni pānāni
5 pachā no āla[bh]iyisaṁti
Translation
(A) This rescript on morality has been caused to be written on the Khēpiṅgala mountain by king Devānaṁpriya Priyadarśin.
(B) Here no living being must be killed and sacrificed.
(C) And also no festival meeting must be held.
(D) For king Devānaṁpriya Priyadarśin sees much evil in festival meetings.
(E) But there are also some festival meetings which are considered meritorious by king Devānaṁpriya Priyadarśin.
(F) Formerly in the kitchen of king Devānaṁpriya Priyadarśin many hundred thousands of animals were killed daily for the sake of curry.
(G) But now, when this rescript on morality is written, only three animals are being killed (daily), (viz.) two peacocks (and) one deer, but even this deer not regularly.
(H) But even these three animals shall not be killed in future.
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