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On pointing out to my pandits, that, even in this elaborate adjustment 

 of the succession of preceptors, the number of lives given is found 

 to be insufficient to fill up a term of 236 years, without bringing the 

 several preceptors into office before they had attained the prescribed 

 age, they at once decided, that the author of the Dipawanso has put 

 forth an erroneous statement, and that the whole ought to be rejected 

 as unfounded. How the discrepancies are to be rectified they do not 

 suggest, beyond hazarding a conjecture, that each preceptor, like 

 Sabhakami, must have lived to a more advanced age; and that each 

 succeeding preceptor consequently had attained a maturer standing at 

 the period of his succession. 



It is time, however, that I should proceed to extracts from the 

 Dipawanso. 



The Third Bhdnawdro of the Dipawanso. 



" Omitting the rajas who existed in former* a kapp<i, I will in the fullest manner 

 narrate (the history of) the rajas of the present creation. I shall perspicuously set 

 forth the regions in which they existed, their name and lineage, the term of their 

 existence, and the manner in which they governed : whatever that narrative may 

 be, attend ye thereto. 



" The first individual who was inaugurated a raja, the protector of the land, was 

 named Maha'sammato ; he was superlatively endowed with personal beauty ; that 

 Khattiyo exercised the functions of sovereignty. 



*' Ro'jo was his son, Wararo'jo, the monarch Kalya'no ; Warakalya'no, 

 Upo'satho/, Manda'to* the seventh in succession, a supreme ruler of the four 

 dipdf, endowed with great wealth; Charo, the raja Upacharo, and Che'tiyo 

 abounding in riches; Muchalo; Maha'muchalo, Muchalindo, Sa'garo ; 

 Sa'GARADe'wo, Bha'rato, Bha'gi'ratho the Khattiyo ; Ruchi', Maha'ruchi, 

 Pata'po, Maha'pata'po, Panado, Maha'pana'do, the Khattiyo Sudassano, 

 Maha'sudassano, and in like manner two of the name of Ne'ru ; and AchchimaJ, 

 (were successively the sons of each preceding ruler.) The term of existence of these 

 twenty-eight rajas was an Asankheyydn ; and the capitals in which these monarchs, 

 whose existence extended to an Asankheyyun, reigned, were Kus&wdti, Rajagahan 

 and MethiU:* 



(Here follows the rule by which an Asankheyydn is to be computed.) 



" The descendants of Achchima' were one hundred ; and they ruled supreme in 

 their capital called Sakuldj. The last of these was the Khattiyo Arindamo ; 



* In the Mahdwanso, I have been misled by the plural Mandatd, and reckoned 

 two kings of that name. I see by the Tikd the name should be in the singular 

 Manddto. The twenty-eight rajas who lived for an Asankheyydn include therefore 

 Maha'sammato. 



t Jambudipo, Uttarukuru, Aparagdydnan and Pubbawideho. 



X This name also has been erroneously omitted by me in the Mahdwanso. 

 Achchimd was there read Pachchima. The Tikd, however, shows that the Dipa- 

 wanso is correct. 



§ In the Tikd, it is further stated: "The eldest son of Achchima' was the 

 monarch Wattapa'ra'sa'ni, though his name be not preserved, quitting Mitheld in 

 the same manner that the Qkkbka family quitting Bbrdnasi founded Kapilawathu in a 



