330 



THE SINGHALESE CHEONICLES. 



[Pari III. 



]!.C. 



543. 



of tlie petty sovereigns in the valley of the Ganges^, 

 effected a landing with a handful of followers in the 

 vicinity of the modern Putlam.^ Here he married the 



^ To facilitate reference to the I map is siibjoined, chiefly taten from 

 ancient divisions of India^ a smaU | Lassen's Jndische AUerthmnskunde. 



Kalall 



Halle hondcrii lid. 



MAP OF ANCIEMT INDIA. 



2 Btjengtjf conjectures that the 

 point from which Wijayo set sail 

 for Ceylon was the Godavery, where 

 the name of Bandar-maha-lauka (the 

 Poi"t of the Great Lanka), still com- 



memorates the event. — Joum. Asiat. 

 vol. xviii. p. 134. De Cottto, re- 

 cording the Singhalese tradition as 

 collected by the Portuguese, says he 

 landed at Preatui-^ (Pereatorre), be- 



