No. 9,-1856-8.] IRRIGATION WORKS OF PARAKRAMA BAHU, 183 



The King, moreover, having made a collection of water in the middle of 

 the river Jajjara (Deduru-oya ?) and having formed paddy fields, collect- 

 ed vast quantities of grain. 



Moreover, having made Panda-ivdpi, which was formerly very small 

 indeed, (into one) containing a body of water, great and exceedingly 

 lofty, having outlets for the water, and an embankment of greatly in- 

 creased height, length, breadth and strength, he gave it the name of the 

 f Sea of Parakrama." 



In an island situated in the middle of it, on the summit of a rock* 

 the King built a Dhdlu-gabblio (Dagaba) resembling the peak of Mount 

 Kaildsa. 



In the middle also of 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 Mahdgalla^ the tank of Setlhi, likewise that of Clihattunnata 

 the tank of Tamba, and the tank of Ambawala, the tank of Giribd, the tank 

 of Patala, the tank of MandiJca, the tank of Murawdpi, and the tanks of 

 Sadiyaggama and Tilagulla, also the tank of Malawalli, the tank of 

 KdlUcittaJcandaJca, the tank of Kanikaragalla, and the mountain stream 

 Buddhagama, the tank of Sukaragama, (' the village of hogs,') the tank of 

 Maha-kirala, the tank of Girt, aud those of RaJckhamana, Ambdla, and 

 Kapunnaru, the tanks of Jallibuwa and Uttardla, and that of Tintirtigama, 

 (' the tamarind village,') the tank of Dhawalawitthi, Kira-vxipi, and Nalan- 

 naru, the tank of Karaivitthawilatta, likewise that of Dumbaragama. The 

 tanks of Munaru, and SalaJcas, and also the tanks of Ifulaivdri, Girisi- 

 gama, Polonnarutala and Wisiratthala. 



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

 or Pasdun-korale,) 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 

 inhabitants to engage themselves in the cultivation of paddy. 



* I am informed by Mr. Braybrooke, who has visited Padavil-kulam 

 that there is a rock in the embankment, called by the natives ©qSca^g^ 

 Deviyanne-Jcanda, 11 God's Hill," or " King's Hill," which they 

 believe is haunted by the spirit of King Mahasen, to whom tradition 

 ascribes the construction of the tank . 



f I have no means of ascertaining the Sinhalese names of these tanks. 

 If we had a list of them in Sinhalese, we might probably identify most 

 of them. 



