40 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. [N.S., XV, 
demanding Virama from Udo, and Udo would not deliver [him]. 
Then they cajoled Udo and seized him and stripping the skin 
off his body, they killed him, And then the Imperial force 
withdrew, and the Sakhalas said to Virama: ‘‘ Now begone.”’ 
Vaderana. And the Johiyas gave to Virama the fourth part of 
the [profits of the] road. So Virama began to stay there. 
Afterwards Virama took in marriage [a daughter] of the 
Magaliyas, and thereafter began to devastate [the territory] of 
the Johiyas, and began to seize the whole profit of the road.! 
Now, so far, the Johiyas [had] not said anything. But [one 
day Virama] fell upon the Jaso Bhati? Bukana, a brother-in- 
law of De Pala, and took away his carts and cattle filled [as 
they were]. ‘And after that he cut the Butea-tree of Mando- 
variyO.2 Then the Johiyas reprimanded him. Thereupon he 
left Vaderana and where the tracks of the wheels (?) [are seen] # 
near Sihathala, there he went to stay. Afterwards [on one 
occasion when] Virama had been robbed of a herd of 20 to 25 
cews [and had gone to rescue them], the Johiyés Mando and 
Dalo with a band fell on the encampment of Virama and 
devastated the villages of his camp, and took away the cattle. 
Virama with his band ran after them in pursuit, and after- 
wards was slain [by the Johiyas] in the plain of Varadhu- 
vala(?) together with 140 men. And Eta about to die] 
Virama said to the Thori Panard: “The Johiyas are off un- 
scathed!”’, and Pinaro from a height shet an arrow where- 
from De Pala fell. So both Virama and De Pala 
Afterwards the wife of Virama, a Bhatiyant, ‘delivered 
Ctidd and became satt, after entrusting Cfidd to the [ Mother] 
Earth. And the Carana Alho picked up [the infant] and took 
him to Kalai. And Goga De remained in the Thala with 
Deva Raja. Afterwards Goga De grew big, and set a spy upon 
the Johiyas, and when [on one occasion] the Johiyé Dhira De 
had gone to Pugala to wed in the [house] of the Bhati Ranaga 
De, Goga De profiting by his absence * collected a band and fell 
do ; 
{which the spy had pointed out], and delivered a blow. Now 
7 preesiess 0) “ae day of the whole road.’ 
Accordin a NénaSi, Bakena | was not a Jasd, but an 
Abhoriyo 1 ers 9 [Virama ri i vata). 
ot quite sure that mandovariyo is a proper name here. 
tradition is "tha: t Virama cut a Butea-tree from a ean aa of the Johi- 
yas, could mandovariyo ba used cat? = indicate this grav 
+ 'The rendering of this passage is very doubtful, but the text does 
not seem to be capable of yielding fost better sense. 
5 In this way I translate 41f@@t ‘« behind, afterwards.” 
