﻿^'2 ON SINGHALA, OR GEYLON, 



tioned, how far this Bhooddha is the one of the 

 Hindoos. The Singhalah have two seras : one, 

 that ah-eady defcribed of Bhooddha ; the 

 other, the Sokkeh, or Sakerajeh Waroo- 

 SEH, which dates from a period of 623 years 

 after the afcenfion of Bhooddha; the laft aera 

 {lands now at 1718. In all public papers that 

 come from the Court of Candia^ it is ufually 

 obferved, that both are inferted. The Sakek 

 V/aroofeh alludes to a date, at which there raged 

 a famine in the idand of Ceylon. This the 

 ■writers of that time attributed to the impiety 

 of the Emperor Kooda Walleh 0amba Ra- 

 ja Roowo, whofe ncgleft of the religion of 

 Bhooddha, is related in the Maha Raja Wal~ 

 lieh. A like event is faid to have taken place 

 about the fame lime on the continent of India, 

 owing to the murder of a Brahmin, by a King 

 named Sagel Nowereh RajA. 



Leawawa, fituated on the eaft fide of Ceylon^ 

 formerly, and for a very confiderable period, fur- 

 niflied a great part of the Candian dominions with 

 fait; nor were any attempts, either of the Portuguefe 

 or Dutch, to attack the Candians in this quarter, ever 

 feconded by the inhabitants; who almoil on every 

 other occafion evinced a general want of loyalty and 

 patriotifm. This fidelity, on the part of the inhabi- 

 tants, has been owing entirely to the veneration and 

 dread they entertain for the God of Kaddea Gamma, 

 whofe temple is fituated near to Leawawa. 



This God is called by the Singhalais, Kandekoo- 

 MAREYo; faid to have iix heads, twelve jiands, &:c. &c. 

 and to held a variety of inftruments, which are par- 

 ticularly defcribed. He is reprefented both in a Hand- 

 ing pofture, and mounted on a peacock, in the atl of 

 jj^'ii^a.. — It is faid that Bhooddha, happening to be 

 for a few minutes in the Pagoda of Kaddergamay 

 3 Kande 



