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Account of the Irrigation Works of 



In the middle alscTof the tank, he built a royal*palaCe three stories 

 high, and of superlative beauty; a palace indeed for the collected joys 

 of the world. 



The following, and many other ruined tanks, and mountain streams 

 did this benevolent monarch repair, in various parts of his dominions, viz, 

 the tank of Mahagalla* the tank of Setthi, likewise that of WacJichat- 

 tanuka, the tank of Tamha, and the tank of Ambawa, the tank of Giriba, 

 the tank of Patala, the tank of Mandaka, the tank of Morawdpi, and the 

 tanks of Sadiyajgdma, and Tillagutta, also the tank of Mallawalli, the 

 tank of Kdlakitti, the tank of Kannikaragalla, and the mountain 

 stream Buddhagama, the tank of Sidmraggama, (the village of Hogs,) 

 the tank of Maha Kirala, the tank of Girt, and those of Rakkhamana, 

 AmbaUa, and Katunnaru, (the tanks of) Juttibdwa, and Uttarala, and that 

 of Tintimgama, (the Tamarind village,) the tanks of Dawalawitthi, Kira- 

 zvapi, and NaUannaru, the tank of Kara wittliawellattan, likewise that 

 of Dumbarra. The tanks of Munnaruka, and Saltan, and also the tanks of 

 Midawdri, Gerisigama, Polonnarutala and Wisiratthala. v 



Draining up great marshes, in the country of Panchayojana (Pasyodun, 

 or Pascluni Corle,) he formed paddy fields, and collected paddy. 



Allotting lands (for paddy cultivation) in the jungles there, and in 

 many other places, calling together the village chiefs, he caused the in- 

 habitants to engage themselves in the cultivation of paddy. 



In this manner having augmented nine-fold the revenues of the state 

 from what they were, the wise King caused the country to be so prospe- 

 rous as never to know the calamities of famine. 



He who was skilled in the maxims of Government, wishing that there 

 should not be even a small spot of land within his dominions inhabited 

 by men, which should be left unbenefitted, formed many pleasant and de- 

 lightful gardens, and groves, full of fruit-bearing and flower-bearing 

 trees and creepers, of every variety fit for the use of man. 



Thus did this sagacious Ruler of the land, cause his small kingdom, 

 which had attained prosperity, by the superiority of his wisdom, to 

 surpass other great kingdoms in affluence. 



The 68th chapter of the Maha Wanso, entitled "the Advancement 

 of the Prosperity of the Kingdom," composed both to comfort and to 

 afflict righteous men. 



Extract from CHAPTER LXXIX. 



This supreme of men, for the purpose of averting the calamities of famine, 

 constructed many tanks and canals in various parts (of the Island.) 



* 1 have no means of ascertaining' the Singhalese names of these tanks, If we 

 had a list of them in Singhalese, we might probably identify most of them. 



