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marched from Magama against his brother Tissa, who was 

 stationed at Dfghawapi in the Batticaloa District. After 

 being defeated in a great battle, the king and his prime 

 minister took to flight, and were followed up by Tissa. On 

 their way towards Magama the fugitives arrived at this 

 Kappukandara river. That their journey was towards the 

 upper part of the river, is shown by their escape from the 

 pursuit of Tissa at some mountain on the route, on reach- 

 ing which Tissa turned back. There are no hills very near 

 the coast. If the Kappukandara river is not the upper 

 part of the Magama-ganga, it is certainly a river of the 

 same neighbourhood, a fact which will explain the appli- 

 cation of the distinctive adjective malia to the lower part of 

 the larger one. 



At Mali., p. 201, it is also stated that Thullatthanaka 

 built a Kandara wihara while his father Saddhatissa 

 resided at Dfghawapi. Whether Thullatthanaka or his 

 brother Lajjitissa resided at Magama, it is certain that 

 this wihara was in Rohana, 



Lajjitissa also built a Kandara In naka wihara, which may 

 have been on one of the hills in the valley above Magama 

 (Mak., p. 202). 



As it may be suggested that some northern river perhaps 

 had a port called Gonagama, which may yet be discovered, 

 and as Dr. Miiller has already identified the Aruvi-aru (or 

 Malwatta-oya) as the Kandara river (Ancient Inscrip- 

 tions, p. 22), I adduce the further evidence in favour of my 

 opinion contained at Mali., p. 55, where we find that Pandu- 

 wasa sent his ministers to meet the Princess Bhaddhakac- 

 chana, and escort her to his capital, Upatissa Nuwara (not 

 Anuradhapura, Mak. f pp. 55, 57). The place where the two 

 parties met is given by Tumour (I presume on the author- 

 ity of the T'ika) as Wijitapura. From this spot the 

 party proceeded to Upatissa Nuwara. Now, Wijitapura near 

 Kalawaswa was on one of the two great northern roads 

 from Magama to Anuradhapura and Upatissa Nuwara — 

 (the other passed through Buttala, formerly Guttah&la, and 

 Mahiyangana) — and it cannot be conceived that any 

 travellers from Mahatittha or its neighbourhood — (where 

 the port for Tammanna would be situated if Tammanna 

 Nuwara were on the Aruvi-aru) — to Upatissa Nuwara, 



