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pieces ; and certain it is that those who committed such abominations will 
hereafter transmigrate into brute beasts. The king Dooroocameny, hearing 
of all these outrages committed by the Malabars, determined on revenge ; 
took ten powerful giants into his service, put their king, Eruaia, to death, 
took their country, brought the whole Island of Ceylon under one banner, 
and promoted the religion of Bupuu by building ninety-nine great temples, 
and among the rest, the monument called Mirisa wette Viharé, and there 
deposited infinite riches.” 
In reference to Bayagiri, we find, in the Rdjaratndcari, p. 41, that, “ The 
king (WaLaGamBaw), moreover, caused to be broken down a temple which 
belonged to a heathen priest called Grrr, and on the said place caused to 
be built twelve temples to Bupuu, one joining another, and in the midst 
caused to be raised an immense weharé, or monument; and joining his own 
name, Abaya, with the name of the heathen priest called Gire, called the 
said monument by the said name, Asaya Gire, and made an offering of the 
same to the priest Tissa, who had befriended him in his exile.” 
Of Jdta Wana Rama, which is attributed to Mand Srnwa, I do not find 
any express mention,* but the following statement relates to that king: 
* Mana Sin Rajan was the next king; he, causing the devils to work, 
made the lake called Minery Weiva, and dammed up the river Caraw ganga, 
which used to run to the said place ; Minnery, at a signal given him by the 
gods, dammed up the brook Tala wattuya, and with the water of the same, 
cultivated twenty thousand fields, and prepared the same for sowing.”...... 
« And as there was no Dhawtoo of Boopuoo, and as he knew by hearing 
that the girdle of BoopHoo was in heaven, he looked up to heaven; and 
the gods seeing that he gave himself so much trouble, consented to let 
down the girdle of Boopoo. The king stretched out his hand to receive 
the said girdle, and thereupon the gods pulled it up again; and the king 
stretching himself to get hold of it, the gods pulled it higher up still ; and 
the king, still eager to lay hold of the girdle, stretched himself still more to 
lay hold of the same, but still the same was drawn up out of his reach. The 
king, after all his anxiety, being disappointed, began to get angry, and 
taking his sword, sprung up eighty cubits towards heaven and cut a piece 
* In the chronology recently published by Mr. TurNour in the Ceylon Almanac for 1833, 
Man Sinua is expressly mentioned as having erected Jdta-Wdna-Rdma Vihdra and dagoba, a 
hundred and forty cubits high, &c. 
