﻿^O <5N SINGHALA, OR CEfLO^Ty 



Bhooddha returned for the third time to Ceylon^ 

 fifteen years after his lirlt vjfit. He arrived on the 

 day of the full moon of EjJeUh, (July,) when the 

 planet Ootra Saleh Nekketing prefided. He vihted 

 fixteen- diiferent places in a Garda, (minute,) placed 

 his foot on the Sammanelleh Sree Fade, and fron* 

 thence afcendcd to Heaven, uhere he inftructed the 

 angels and apoillcs, and told them that his dottrines. 

 or law, would exift in the world for 5500* years : and 

 as the doctrines of three other Bhooddhas had pre- 

 vailed irr Ceylon previous to its being overrun by evil 

 Spirits, therefore was it that his was to be then pro- 

 mulgated there. 



BiiOODDMA afterv/ards addreffed himfelf to Sek- 

 REREH Dkvee Endrya, faying, " I cede unto you the 

 " idand of Ceylon. A Frince of the namt of Vijee 

 " Singhe'ba Gom.maroo will arrive there, with 700 

 " followers," and giving him a thread and fome blelfcd 

 water, he added, " You will fprinkle all thofe people 

 " with this water, and tie the thread rouitd the Prince's 

 " neck." He then called for an apoltle named Mi- 

 HENDOO Terroonasse'e, and faidtohimy " Yolv will 

 *' eftablifli my law in the ifland of Ceylon" 



Vijee Singhe'ba, by means of the thread 

 which Bnooi>DHA bad ordered to be tied round 

 his neck, is faid to have accompliflied extraor- 

 dinary deeds during the firft days of his ar- 

 rival ; aiKl afters\ ards to have been thereby 

 enabled to transform into a rock, the female 

 Demon, Cowk'nee Jackinee, then his wife; 

 that he might marry the Prince fs he had fo- 

 licited for his Queen from the King of Pan- 

 doowas rafieh^f and who had then arrived with 



700 



* 5000 is the period mentioned in every other document I have feen oa 



the fubject, 



f Said to be on the Coall of Coromandel. 



