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of the petty sovereigns in the valley of the Ganges 1 , 

 effected a landing with a handful of followers in the 

 vicinity of the modern Putlam. 2 Here he married the 

 daughter of one of the native chiefs, and having speedily 



1 To facilitate reference to the I map is subjoined, chiefly taken from 

 ancient divisions of India, a small | Lassen's Indische Alterthumskunde. 



(Gagnnnath.) 



MAP OF ANCIENT INDIA. 



2 BUBNOUF conjectures that the 

 point from which Wijayo set sail 

 for Ceylon was the Godavery, where 

 the name of Bandar-maha-lanka (the 

 Port of the Great Lanka), still com- 

 memorates the event. Journ. Asiat. 

 vol. xviii. p. 134. DK Cotrro, re- 



cording the Singhalese tradition as 

 collected by the Portuguese, says he 

 landed at Preature" (Pereatorre), be- 

 tween Trincomalie and JaiFna-patam, 

 and that the first city founded by 

 him was Mantotte. Decade v. 1. 1. 

 c. 5. 



