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THE RUIXED CITIES. 



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twenty feet high, and are divided into compartments 

 by pilasters. If it be not the work of Prakrama, it is 

 probably that of Kitsen Kisdas, one of his immediate 

 successors, who usurped the throne in 1187, and who, 

 according to the Bajavali, " built the Kiri-dagoba at 

 Pollanarrua, a house for the dalada, and a temple of a 

 globular form for the same." ^ 



Another remarkable building in the same group is 

 the Dalada Malaga wa, the depository of the sacred 

 tooth during its enshrinement at Pollanarrua. The 

 temple originally destined for this piu'pose was built by 

 Praki'ama Bahu ^, " at a yodun's distance from the 

 palace ; " but the ruins, as they present themselves at 

 the present day, so closely conform to the description 

 of the Dalada temple, as recorded in the inscription on 

 the great stone at the Sat-makal-prasada, as to leave no 

 doubt that this is the identical shrine formed by Elrti 

 Nissanga about the year a.d. 1198. — "It had a covered 

 terrace around it, and an open hall decorated with 

 wreaths and festoons, and hkewise gateways and waUs." ^ 

 How nearly this corresponds to the ground plan of the 

 ruin may be seen from the subjoined survey. 



PLAN OP THE DALADA MALAGAWj?.. 



Proceeding northward along the great street, which, 



^ Hajavalu p. 255. 



* Ma/iftwmiso, ch. Ixxiii. 



^ Insfriptioii, Sec. See Appendix 

 to TrRXom's Epitome, tS'c, p. 94 ; 

 see also HajurnttKicdri, p. 92. It was 



restored by Wijayo Balm lY. a.d. 

 1279 {Muluni-anso, ch. Ixxxvii.), and 

 again bv Prakrama Balm III. a.d. 

 I.'n9 d'hi,}. rli. Ixxxviii.). 



